Recent Advances towards Validating Efficacy and Safety of African Traditional Medicines
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Date
2014
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Abstract
Traditional medicine (TM) has a significant role to play in
the African health care system for two main reasons. The
first one is the inadequate access to allopathic medicines
and western forms of treatments. The majority of people in
Africa cannot afford access to modern medical care either
because it is too costly or because there are nomedical service
providers. Second, there is a lack of effectivemodernmedical
treatment for some ailments such as malaria or HIV/AIDS,
which, although global in distribution, disproportionately
affect Africamore than other areas in the world. It is generally
believedthatAfricanTMs if revisited andmeshedwithrecent
developments in science could provide substantial benefits
that could help give a boost to the African health care system
and by doing so alleviate sufferings and livelihood of people.
It is also believed that by rediscovering and adding value to
the ancientwisdoms it will also empower people at the grassroot
level and help patients as well as scientists find solutions
to mitigate, inter alia, the global impact of diseases.
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Advances, Efficacy, Safety, African Traditional Medicines
Citation
Tabuti, J. R., Hassen, I. E., Pateh, U. U., & Mahomoodally, M. F. (2014). Recent advances towards validating efficacy and safety of African traditional medicines. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/260567