WHO Okays Healers

Aug 17, 2003

The World Health Organisation is to recognise August 31 this year as the African Traditional Medicine Day.

By Samuel Wamuttu
and Alex Balimwikingu


The World Health Organisation is to recognise August 31 this year as the African Traditional Medicine Day.
The day is to highlight the need to bring on board traditional medicine to help in combating AIDS.
Dr. Dorothy Balaba, the director of Traditional and Modern Health Practioners Together Against AIDS (THETA), recently said WHO had accepted to have alternative medicine to fight AIDS.
It is estimates that over 50 million people worldwide are infected with the HIV virus, 70% of them in the Sub-Saharan Africa.
In Uganda, over 1.5 million are estimated to be infected with HIV/AIDS.
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