Report of the Consultation on AIDS and Traditional Medicine: Prospects for Involving Traditional Health Practitioners (Francistown, Botswana, 23-27 July 1990): 3. RECOMMENDATIONS: 3.4 Involvement of traditional health practitioners in national AIDS programmes

Report of the Consultation on AIDS and Traditional Medicine: Prospects for Involving Traditional Health Practitioners (Francistown, Botswana, 23-27 July 1990)
(1990; 48 pages) [French]

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION
	1.1 Background of the consultation
	1.2 Purpose and objectives of the consultation
	1.3 Organization and proceedings of the consultation
2. APPROACHES FOR INVOLVING TRADITIONAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS IN AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL
	2.1 Guidelines for formulating policies on training, research, and ethical issues in traditional medicine and AIDS
	2.2 Identification of relevant programme areas for involving traditional health practitioners in AIDS prevention and control
	2.3 Identification of target groups of traditional health practitioners for training, development of training methodology, and identification of training materials
	2.4 Identification of research priorities
3. RECOMMENDATIONS
	3.1 Policy and legislation
	3.2 Education and training
	3.3 Research
	3.4 Involvement of traditional health practitioners in national AIDS programmes
	3.5 Recommendations for WHO follow-up action
ANNEXES
	Annex 1. List of participants
	Annex 2. Consultation agenda
	Annex 3. Welcoming remarks by Mr M. Tshipinare, Acting Minister of Health, Botswana
	Annex 4. Inaugural address by Dr G.L. Monekosso, Director, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville
	Annex 5. Traditional medicine and AIDS: Prospects and perspectives by Dr Olayiwola Akerele, Programme Manager, Traditional Medicine, WHO Geneva
	Annex 6. A review of AIDS epidemiology worldwide by Dr Benjamin M. Nkowane, Medical Officer, Global Programme on AIDS, WHO, Geneva
	Annex 7. Country profiles
		Botswana
		Cameroon
		Ethiopia
		Ghana
		Kenya¹
		Nigeria
		Uganda
		Zimbabwe

3.4 Involvement of traditional health practitioners in national AIDS programmes

3.4.1 The guidelines formulated by the consultation should be adapted by national authorities to further develop activities to involve traditional health practitioners in the prevention and control of HIV infections and in the care of AIDS patients.