Togo: how do traditional medicine and conventional medicine work together?

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The Priorité Santé team traveled to the Kara region, in northern Togo, to meet players in traditional medicine, 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.

M’Boridja Moukpa, traditional healer, president of the Association of Traditional Medicine Practitioners, and his apprentice (right), at the microphone of Caroline Paré, in the Kara region, Togo, in February 2023. © RFI/ Ophelie Lahccen

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• M’Boridja MOUKPATraditional healer, President of the Association of Traditional Medicine Practitioners (APMT)

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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