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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"traditional healer"”.
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Conceptualizations of ancestral calling: Symptoms of mental illness from the traditional healers’ viewpoint in villages around Tzaneen Municipality of Mopani District
… process of ukuthwasa (initiation) and become a traditional healer. Therefore, the study sought to explore the conceptualizations of ancestral calling: Presentation of mental illness from the traditional healers’ viewpoint. The research was conducted at villages around Tzaneen Municipality of …
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Collective Woundedness: Exploring intergenerational trauma and healing in Barbara Boswell’s Grace, Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain
… the protagonist answers the Calling to become a traditional healer. African spirituality is offered as a way in which one can arrive at a form of healing. In Period Pain, the very act of writing becomes a healing pathway. The novel is presented as undated diary entries, and the protagonist …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… with three local experts (an ombiasa, a traditional healer) and two material healers who identified four distinct vegetation communities within the Reserve (lowland forest, higher forest, grassland, and rocky coast). I collected herbarium specimens and identified all plant species found …
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Exploring the role of traditional healers can play in minimizing the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in South Central District of KwaZulu-Natal region
This study explores the role that traditional healers can play in minimizing the HIV/AIDS epidemics in the North South Central district of KwaZulu-Natal region. The aim of the study is to explore the role that can be played by traditional healers with an aim of reducing HIV/AIDS to a minimum …
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Assessing Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Resources to Develop a Sustainable Management Plan for the Lokaro Reserve in Southeast, Madagascar
… with three local experts (an ombiasa, a traditional healer) and two material healers who identified four distinct vegetation communities within the Reserve (lowland forest, higher forest, grassland, and rocky coast). I collected herbarium specimens and identified all plant species found …
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A public health conflict : traditional medicinal practise and the bio-medical health norms and values at a time of HIV and AIDS in Swaziland
… the epidemic. The existence of different healers e.g. faith healers, medical doctors and traditional healers and herbalists is a significant aspect of health seeking behaviours among the larger population in Swaziland (only 22% of Swaziland is urbanized). The people‟s attitude towards and …
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Potentially Traumatic Event Experiences and Health Care Service Use in Liberia
… treatment, and a higher preference for seeing a traditional healer instead of using the facility to obtain care when sick. Most individuals with increased experience of PTEs used both the informal and formal care system to meet their health care needs. Their reliance on the informal care system …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Personal, Schooling and Structural Factors Contributing to High School Learner Dropout in Philippi
… forced marriages, responding to calls to be a traditional healer and behavioral changes emanating from traditional male circumcision created subjective norms and expectations that were not in line with academic progression. Economically, the learners ‘poor financial backgrounds presented an …
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An exploration into the effects of traditional medicine on reproductive health of rural women in Allandale Village, Mpumalanga Province
This study explored into the effects of traditional medicine on reproductive health of rural women. Negative reports associated with traditional medicine due to bogus traditional practitioners expose most women to the harmful consequences of concoctions supplied and administered on them. However, …
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Use of palliative chemotherapy in South Africa: National survey of paediatric oncologists and experience in a single unit
… the disease and delayed presentation due to traditional healer visits or other cultural issues. In patients who present with advanced cancer, or in patients with relapsed cancer without realistic hope of cure, palliative chemotherapy can be offered in an attempt to manage symptoms, improve …
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Traditional healing and medicine in dementia care for Indigenous populations in North America, Australia, and New Zealand: a scoping review
… 2018, the World Health Organization recognized traditional healers as stakeholders in dementia care and prevention. Traditional healers contribute to dementia assessment, diagnosis, and care in unique ways, and play a catalytic role in the process of culturally-safe dementia care planning and …
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The impact of African traditional healers on Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa
There are few studies on the impact of African traditional healing on HIV/AIDS care and treatment in South Africa. There is a need for concrete data on the subject as many people across the African continent are thought to be accessing these kinds of healing services. This study which consists of …
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Traditional Intellectual Property Protection in Tanzania: The Case of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
… issues that relates to protection of indigenous traditional knowledge with special emphasis to traditional medicinal knowledge. The core issue of TK protection and in particular traditional medicinal knowledge lies at the centre of the current global IP protection mechanisms. The problem that …