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Adaptations, alterations and shifted strategies: the pragmatics of knowledge transfer in HIV and AIDS interventions in South Africa

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2009 The historical relationship between western and traditional health practitioners in South Africa was always uncomfortable and remote. This paper does not rehearse the complex colonial history of this disjunction, but rather focuses on some ... Read more c b n d
Facilitating relationships between African traditional healing and western medicine in South Africa in the time of AIDS: A case study from the Western Cape

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2006 As the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa matures, the importance of encouraging a more cooperative approach between biomedicine and traditional African healers (TAHs) becomes paramount. This is not solely based on the potential of the additional ... Read more c b n d
Involving traditional health practitioners in HIV/AIDS interventions: Lessons from the Western Cape Province.

Author: Wreford, Joanne ; Esser, Monika ; Hippler, Stefan Date: 2008 Despite international recognition of the potential value of collaboration between traditional health practitioners and western medicine, examples of this approach in South Africa are rare. Contextualised within the aims and objectives of the ... Read more c b n d
Missing each other: problems and potential for collaborative efforts between biomedicine and traditional healers in South Africa in the Time of AIDS

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2005 Supported by ethnographic evidence from ongoing research with African traditional healers, mainly in the Western Cape Province, this paper promotes reciprocal collaborations between traditional practitioners and western trained doctors in ... Read more
Myths, masks and stark realities: traditional African healers, HIV/AIDS narratives and patterns of HIV/AIDS avoidance.

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2008 Based on field evidence from anthropological research with Traditional Health Practitioners in the Western Cape Province, this paper presents narratives that demonstrate the use of myth and camouflage in popular responses to HIV/AIDS, as ... Read more c b n d
Negotiating relationships between biomedicine and sangoma: Fundamental misunderstandings, avoidable mistakes

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2005 In South Africa, traditional African and biomedical practitioners operate in parallel, but largely separate, arenas, in which collaboration is largely absent. This paper suggests that any positive benefits of pluralism tend to be undermined ... Read more c b n d
The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2009 The persistence ofthe binary of scientific and indigenous or traditional medicine in contemporary South Africa is particularly unhelpful in the context of HIV/AIDS and encourages biomedical disengagement from a potentially helpful cohort of ... Read more c b n d
Rapprochement or resistance?: utilising traditional healing principles and practice to enhance HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2007 Understanding the obstacles to HIV/AIDS treatment Statistics on HIV infection in South Africa record up to 5.2 million people living with the virus. Highest infection rates are reported from the townships and ‘informal settlements’ where the ... Read more c b n d
Shaming and blaming: Medical myths, traditional health practitioners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2008 This paper examines some often repeated 'medical myths' about Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) in South Africa, in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Narratives have served many purposes in the pandemic: the stories included here ... Read more c b n d
‘Sincedisa – We Can Help!’ A Literature Review of Current Practice Involving Traditional African Healers in Biomedical HIV/AIDS Interventions in South Africa

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2005 This review describes research literature involved with efforts at collaboration between traditional African healers (TAHs) and biomedical practitioners in HIVIAIDS interventions in Southern Africa. The paper draws on academic texts including ... Read more
Worlds Apart? Religious interpretations and witchcraft in interpretations and witchcraft in for HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2009 Academic research has tended to explain traditional African health practices as part of a belief system, usually understood as religious. Biomedicine meanwhile harnesses this religious definition as validation of the familiar dichotomy between ... Read more c b n d