[NAIROBI] A study found that potentially lethal cases of diarrhoea and pneumonia in young children can be substantially decreased when simple health messages are conveyed by drama and music. The research carried out in the Gambia used traditional performance arts to motivate mothers to provide healthy food and water for infants. As a result of […]
Last year, Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina announced that the country had discovered a cure and treatment for COVID-19, a tea containing traditional Malagasy plants including artemisia. The announcement pushed African traditional medicine into the spotlight, with a renewed interest in the potential that such remedies may have and the dangers that untested cures may carry. […]
During the early stages of the pandemic, while the rest of the world grappled with the devastating effects of the pandemic, Africa seemed untouchable. Many theories were circulating that the novel Coronavirus would thaw under the African heat. The worry, though, was that the largely derelict health infrastructure in Africa would further under the pandemic’s […]
The discovery of new drugs is vital to achieving the eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa and around the world. Now, researchers have identified traditional Ghanaian medicines that work in the laboratory against schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis, three diseases endemic to Ghana, according to a PLOS publication of NTDs, copied to the […]
Cannabis sativa popularly known as Marijuana or weed/wee is a herb 🌿 that is widespread among nations in different continents. Some men and women smoke it for the purpose of pleasure and its euphoric effect. But apart from these 2 effects, research has shown that “weed” has got a lot of outstanding medicinal values to help […]
