Traditional medicine in Tanga today : the ancient and modern worlds meet (English)

This report deals with primary health care providers in Africa. Today healers in Africa still play crucial roles they carry the burden of care for treating people with HIV/AIDS. Plants have been used as primary sources of medicine for thousands of years. This report indicates that plants have medicinal qualities due to the substances they produce to protect themselves from insect pests and pathogens. Many medicines are extracted from the roots, root...

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Scheinman, David;
Document Date
2002/12/31
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
25194
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Tanzania,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2017/11/20
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Traditional medicine in Tanga today : the ancient and modern worlds meet
Keywords
traditional healer

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Scheinman, David.

Traditional medicine in Tanga today : the ancient and modern worlds meet (English). Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes|no 51 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/125771468760788645

Traditional medicine in Tanga today : the ancient and modern worlds meet (English)

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