The use of medicinal plants and animal‐derived remedies for treating illness by Africans
goes back many years. Traditionally, rural African communities have relied mainly on the …

The first cases of the current West African epidemic of Ebola virus disease (hereafter
referred to as Ebola) were reported on March 22, 2014, with a report of 49 cases in Guinea …

Itinerant traditional surgeons work throughout sub-Saharan Africa and perform many
procedures including: tooth extraction, abortion, injections, incising and draining abscesses …

In Ghana, the use of medicinal plants is a known and an acceptable practice common to all
the regions and ethnic groups, with about 60% to 70% of Ghanaians depending on …

Epilepsy-associated stigma in Africa has been described largely in terms of enacted stigma
or discrimination. We conducted a study of 169 adults with epilepsy attending epilepsy …

Traditional African medicine often carries with it a perception and stigma of being irrational
and ungrounded in scientific method in academia. One reason for this common prejudicial …

The aim of this study was to examine illness presentation and understand how psychiatric
patients make meaning of the causes of their mental illnesses. Six Jamaican psychiatric …

Background Practices of biopiracy to use genetic resources and indigenous knowledge by
Western companies without benefit-sharing of those, who generated the traditional …

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The meta-paradigm of a discipline represents the global perspective of such a discipline and
serves as an indication of how the practitioners of the discipline view the primary …