Title: [Beginning in collaboration between a health team and villages where traditional therapy is practiced]

POPLINE Document Number: 776791

Author(s):

Malonga M

Source citation:

In: Conseil Africain et Malgauche pour l'Enseignement Superieur. Troisieme Colloque du CAMES, Medecine traditionelle et pharmacopee Africaines, Kigali, Rwanda, October 8-15, 1977. Ougadougou, Upper Volta, CAMES, 1977. :207-8.

Abstract:

The collaboration between the health authorities of the district of Kinkala, Rwanda, and the Association of traditional healers began in 1977. The Association of traditional healers, which includes 180 members, is in charge of cultivating those medicinal plants which are becoming rare, and to write a phytotherapy brochure naming all plants utilized in traditional practices, their origin, places of cultivation, and their use. Health authorities, on the other hand, have organized several health teams which regularly visit the 12 villages participating in the project, with the purpose to teach the population basic norms of health and hygiene.

Keywords:

Rwanda
Plants, Medicinal
Africa, Central
Africa, Sub Saharan
Africa
Developing Countries
Medicine
Health Services
Delivery of Health Care
Health