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Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa
African traditional medicine (ATM) and traditional health practitioners (THPs) could make significant contributions to the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). Consequently, the WHO provided technical tools to assist African countries to develop ATM as a significant component of healthcare...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797325/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31673437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001517 |
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author | Kasilo, Ossy Muganga Julius Wambebe, Charles Nikiema, Jean-Baptiste Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet |
author_facet | Kasilo, Ossy Muganga Julius Wambebe, Charles Nikiema, Jean-Baptiste Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet |
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description | African traditional medicine (ATM) and traditional health practitioners (THPs) could make significant contributions to the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). Consequently, the WHO provided technical tools to assist African countries to develop ATM as a significant component of healthcare. Many African countries adopted the WHO tools after appropriate modifications to advance research and development (R&D) of ATM. An analysis of the extent of this development was undertaken through a survey of 47 countries in the WHO African region. Results show impressive advances in R&D of ATM, the collaboration between THP and conventional health practitioners, quality assurance as well as regulation, registration and THP integration into the national health systems. We highlight the various ways investment in the R&D of ATM can impact on policy, practice and the three themes of UHC. We underscore the need for frameworks for fair and equitable sharing of all benefits arising from the R&D of ATM products involving all the stakeholders. We argue for further investment in ATM as a complement to conventional medicine to promote attainment of the objectives of UHC. |
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spelling | pubmed-67973252019-10-31 Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa Kasilo, Ossy Muganga Julius Wambebe, Charles Nikiema, Jean-Baptiste Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet BMJ Glob Health Analysis African traditional medicine (ATM) and traditional health practitioners (THPs) could make significant contributions to the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC). Consequently, the WHO provided technical tools to assist African countries to develop ATM as a significant component of healthcare. Many African countries adopted the WHO tools after appropriate modifications to advance research and development (R&D) of ATM. An analysis of the extent of this development was undertaken through a survey of 47 countries in the WHO African region. Results show impressive advances in R&D of ATM, the collaboration between THP and conventional health practitioners, quality assurance as well as regulation, registration and THP integration into the national health systems. We highlight the various ways investment in the R&D of ATM can impact on policy, practice and the three themes of UHC. We underscore the need for frameworks for fair and equitable sharing of all benefits arising from the R&D of ATM products involving all the stakeholders. We argue for further investment in ATM as a complement to conventional medicine to promote attainment of the objectives of UHC. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6797325/ /pubmed/31673437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001517 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Analysis Kasilo, Ossy Muganga Julius Wambebe, Charles Nikiema, Jean-Baptiste Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa |
title | Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa |
title_full | Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa |
title_fullStr | Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa |
title_short | Towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in Africa |
title_sort | towards universal health coverage: advancing the development and use of traditional medicines in africa |
topic | Analysis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797325/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31673437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001517 |
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