Ouagadougou: The associations of naturotherapists of the Central region and the Bolo-Yan association invited on Friday the actors of traditional medicine to unite for health sovereignty in Africa, noted the AIB.
‘The people of Africa must be able to treat themselves locally and effectively at reasonable costs,’ declared the head of the Senegalese organization YDNA VITA, Ibrahim Diagne, during an international conference on Friday December 22, 2023 in Ouagadougou.
This conference, under the theme ‘Health and Sovereignty’, has the general objective of creating a competitive environment in the pharmaceutical market and developing scientific and industrial skills specific to Africa in the field of health.
For the founder of the Bolo-Yan association, Ali Barry, the actors decided to think about how to use African plants to gain control over their health system.
To achieve this general objective, specific objectives were set out, namely drawing the attention of health stakeholders to the problem of the epidemio
logical situation in the region and to the danger of new infections.
Consider the experience of the most successful African and foreign countries in the field of health and pharmacology, develop and propose general biological protection measures for countries in the region, and the establishment of a control strategy particularly on the implementation of biological projects and research in West Africa by Western pharmaceutical companies are also part of the specific objectives.
‘We have the knowledge. All we want is simply laboratories to detect diseases and transform our plants into capsules and tablets for treatment,’ said Lafi Soré founder Hafige Bandé.
He also invited those involved in traditional medicine to unite and organize themselves in order to have more space in Africa.
The advisor to the Minister of Health on traditional medicine, Mahamadi Konfé, took the opportunity to ensure that traditional and alternative medicine are regulated and taken into account in Burkina Faso.
‘One of the policies
is to get traditional medicine players to evolve into small and medium-sized businesses,’ he added.
‘Another policy is that we are moving towards the introduction of the teaching of traditional medicine in health training schools and in universities,’ said Mr. Konfé.
Source: Burkina Information Agency