The place of traditional medicine in the control of tropical diseases: a case-study of onchocerciasis management in Etteh community of Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area, Enugu State, Nigeria

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Title:	The place of traditional medicine in the control of tropical diseases: a case-study of onchocerciasis management in Etteh community of Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area, Enugu State, Nigeria
Author:	Okeibunor, J. Chukwudi
Year:	1999
Periodical:	West African Journal of Archaeology
Volume:	29
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	188-197
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	traditional medicine blindness
Abstract:	Onchocerciasis has been identified as a serious health problem with social and economic consequences. Health care planning in Africa has been done by expatriates without adequate allowance for the sociocultural realities of the various societies concerned. Hence, while there remains a persistent adherence to tradition and superstitious beliefs in some spheres of life, the transplanted medicare system hangs loose. It thus becomes necessary to understand the existing methodology with the aim of blending it with the new technology. This paper examines the traditional mode of managing onchocerciasis in the Igbo-speaking Etteh community (Enugu-Ezike, Igboeze North Local Government Area, Enugu State, Nigeria) with a view to highlighting its relevance to the new dispensation. Both natural and social science methods were used for data collection. Bibliogr.