WHO Calls for Regulation of Traditional Medicine in Africa

World Health Organization officials on Monday called to regulate traditional medicine in Africa to protect the public against potentially harmful practices. The announcement, which coincided with the U.N. body's commemoration of African Traditional Medicine Day, could have broad implications for the estimated 80 percent of Africans who rely on traditional practitioners for their primary mode of care. Calling upon researchers to work with traditional practitioners to produce...

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