Collaboration between traditional healers and psychiatrists in Sudan

Collaboration with african traditional healers for the prevention of blindness.

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The treatment outcome of psychotic disorders by traditional healers in central Sudan.

BACKGROUND Alternative and traditional healing methods are common and popular in Sudan, particularly for treating people with mental disorders, but little information is available about the outcome of theses traditional healing approaches. OBJECTIVES To study the outcome of treating patients with psychotic disorders by traditional healers, and to understand the type of services, interventions...

Co-operation between traditional healers and medical personnel.

To the Editor: It is my opinion that meaningful co-operation between traditional healers and scientific medical practice is impossible, because of the fundamental difference in the concept of disease causation that underlies the practice of both sides. The articles in the insert to the SAMJ of December 1994 ('Bridging the gap') provided a welcome explanation of the way in which the traditional ...

Medical Pluralism and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: What are the barriers to collaboration between Traditional Healers and Medical Doctors?

Experience of initiating collaboration of traditional healers in managing HIV and AIDS in Tanzania

Collaboration between traditional healers and biomedical practitioners is now being accepted by many African countries south of the Sahara because of the increasing problem of HIV/AIDS. The key problem, however, is how to initiate collaboration between two health systems which differ in theory of disease causation and management. This paper presents findings on experience learned by initiation ...