Document 0767
 DOCN  M9460767
 TI    Sexually-transmitted diseases, AIDS and traditional healers in
       Mozambique.
 DT    9404
 AU    Green EC; Jurg A; Dgedge A; Department of Traditional Medicine, Ministry
       of Health, Maputo,; Mozambique.
 SO    Med Anthropol. 1993 Aug;15(3):261-81. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94158588
 AB    Qualitative research was conducted with traditional healers in Manica
       Province, Mozambique to develop an empirical, culturally-appropriate
       strategy for communication between government and traditional healers
       related to the prevention of STDs including AIDS. Most Manica healers
       regard AIDS as a new disease for which they lack medicines. However,
       when questioned on other sexually transmitted diseases, as defined by
       healers themselves, relatively complex disease taxonomies based on fine
       distinctions between symptoms emerged. Manica healers recognize two
       broad categories of STDs: siki and nyoka-related. The former seems to
       correspond with the more serious common STDs of Western
       biomedicine--syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and chancroid--and is
       believed to be caused by a common invisible, microscopic agent, khoma.
       Nyoka-related illnesses are understood in terms of traditional ideas of
       pollution, and denote less serious, self-limiting genito-urinary
       conditions. Healers express great faith in the efficacy of traditional
       medicines. Based on the ethnomedical research findings, a
       culturally-sensitive and specific AIDS/STD health education strategy for
       Manica indigenous healers was developed and began operating in a
       week-long workshop held in Chimoio, Mozambique in November 1991.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL  Female  Health
       Education  *Health Policy  Human  Male  *Medicine, African Traditional
       Mozambique  Pilot Projects  Sexually Transmitted Diseases/*PREVENTION &
       CONTROL  Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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