The current Head of Department of Herbal Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Prof Isaac Ayensu has found it expedient to solicit the inputs of all stakeholders in the herbal medicine fraternity for the department 10years strategic plan created by the Department Board To this end, he has expressed the interest of the Department […]
By Farai Shawn Matiashe In the early days of Covid-19, people from Zimbabwe to Tanzania turned to home remedies for a disease about which little was known. But now, even as African countries begin rolling out vaccine programs, many could still stick with traditional treatments. Amid a serious surge in cases, after people traveled over the Christmas […]
Cameroon has launched an awareness campaign among the population after two cases of polio were detected in Yaounde, health officials said Thursday. “The response consists of sensitizing communities for the observation of hygiene measures, intensification of routine immunization, and epidemiological surveillance,” Dr. José Shalom Tchokfe, head of the Ministry of Health said. Two cases of […]
Even as the world is bracing for vaccination drives to combat COVID-19, many people in the Southern African country of Zimbabwe have latched their hopes on zumbani — a woody shrub — to keep the pandemic at bay. Nyson Mhaka, 52, and his wife Gertrude, 47, were infected with COVID-19 in December. They claim to […]
By Nana Kwadwo Obiri, Secretary of GHAFTRAM Allegations by the Ghana Federation for Traditional Medicine Practitioners (GHAFTRAM), accusing the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) of misleading the public on the use of the herbal Cryptolepis sanguinolenta, locally known as Nibima for the cure of COVID-19 is worrying and should be considered as false by those […]
