UNAIDS Case Study

ANCIENT REMEDIES, NEW DISEASE :

Involving traditional healers in increasing access to AIDS care and prevention in East Africa

UNAIDS Case Study

June 2002

UNAIDS Best Practice Collection

This document was prepared under the direction of the UNAIDS Intercountry Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, and the Regional Task Force for Traditional Medicine, THETA, Uganda. It was written by Rachel King.

UNAIDS Responsible Officers: Sandra Anderson and Noerine Kaleeba

Photos: Vanessa Vick, Joseph Tenywa, and Rachel King.

Drawings: Jennifer Balaba

UNAIDS/02.16E (Original version, June 2002) ISBN 92-9173-171-4

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U N A I D S BEST PRACTICE COLLECTION

ANCIENT REMEDIES, NEW DISEASE:

Involving traditional healers in increasing access to AIDS care

and prevention in East Africa

UNAIDS Geneva, Switzerland

2002

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CONTENTS

Abbreviations

4

Acknowledgements

4

Foreword

5

I. Introduction

6

II. Traditional medicine and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa--

history and terminology

7

III. Women, AIDS and traditional medicine in Kenya

9

? AIDS in Kenya

9

? Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK): objectives and activities 10

? Lessons learned from WOFAK

15

? Summary analysis of WOFAK

16

? Best Practice criteria analysis of WOFAK

17

? WOFAK's specific criteria/approach for traditional

medicine/biomedicine collaboration

17

IV. AIDS care and prevention: an integrated model

in the United Republic of Tanzania

18

? AIDS in the United Republic of Tanzania

18

? Tanga AIDS Working Group (TAWG): objectives and activities 18

? Lessons learned from TAWG

27

? Summary analysis of TAWG

28

? Best Practice criteria analysis of TAWG

29

? TAWG's specific criteria/approach for traditional medicine/

biomedicine collaboration

29

V. Training, research and information-sharing on traditional medicine and AIDS:

a comprehensive approach in Uganda

30

? AIDS in Uganda

30

? Traditional and Modern Health Practitioners

together against AIDS (THETA): objectives and activities

31

? Lessons learned from THETA

46

? Summary analysis of THETA

47

? Best Practice criteria analysis of THETA

48

? THETA's specific criteria/approach for traditional medicine/

biomedicine collaboration

48

VI . Conclusions and a call for action

49

VII. References and further reading

50

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