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Traditional health practitioners’ perceptions, herbal treatment and management of HIV and related opportunistic infections

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, December 2014
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Title
Traditional health practitioners’ perceptions, herbal treatment and management of HIV and related opportunistic infections
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/1746-4269-10-77
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Denver Davids, Tarryn Blouws, Oluwaseyi Aboyade, Diana Gibson, Joop T De Jong, Charlotte Van’t Klooster, Gail Hughes

Abstract

In South Africa, traditional health practitioners' (THPs) explanatory frameworks concerning illness aetiologies are much researched. However there is a gap in the literature on how THPs understand HIV-related opportunistic infections (OIs), i.e. tuberculosis, candidiasis and herpes zoster. This study aimed to comprehend THPs' understandings of the aforementioned; to ascertain and better understand the treatment methods used by THPs for HIV and OIs, while also contributing to the documentation of South African medicinal plants for future conservation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 114 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 19%
Student > Master 17 15%
Researcher 13 11%
Student > Postgraduate 9 8%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 31 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 5%
Social Sciences 6 5%
Other 30 26%
Unknown 39 33%
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#18,385,510
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#608
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