The Priorité Santé team traveled to the Kara region, in northern Togo, to meet traditional medicine players, whose practice is now part of the care pathway. While continuing to provide advice and remedies from traditional pharmacopoeia and oral culture, some traditional healers faced with situations and pathologies requiring treatment by doctors with university training, become referents, who refer these cases to the centers. health and hospital structures.
This complementarity makes it possible to integrate traditional actors, who often remain the first healthcare providers, into a modern healthcare system that lacks resources. A win-win complementarity, which aims to limit delays in treatment.
- M’Boridja Moukpatraditional healer, president of the Association of Traditional Medicine Practitioners (APMT)
- Kossi Rémi Apeleteassistant to the Training Division, Territorial Administration – General rapporteur National Federation of Voodoo Cults and Traditions from Togo and voodoo priest in Lomé.
Report in the Kara region, Togo – Directed by Victor Uhl.
Program produced in partnership with the French Muskoka Fund which works to improve the health and well-being of women, newborns, children and adolescents by strengthening health systems by mobilizing the complementary expertise of four United Nations agencies : OMS, UN Women, UNFPA et UNICEF. The French Muskoka Fund operates in nine West and Central African countries.
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