International NGO Journal

  • Abbreviation: Int. NGOJ
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8225
  • DOI: 10.5897/INGOJ
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 264

Full Length Research Paper

Collaboration between practitioners of traditional and conventional medicine: A report of an intervention carried out with traditional women healers in the province of Sanmatenga (Burkina Faso) to improve the obtaining of the license to practice traditional medicine

Boly Rainatou
  • Boly Rainatou
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Compaore Souleymane
  • Compaore Souleymane
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Ouedraogo Salfo
  • Ouedraogo Salfo
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Zeba Mohamadi
  • Zeba Mohamadi
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Magnini D. Rene
  • Magnini D. Rene
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Bance Alimata
  • Bance Alimata
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Yoda Jules
  • Yoda Jules
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Nitiema Mathieu
  • Nitiema Mathieu
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Belemlilga B. Mohamed
  • Belemlilga B. Mohamed
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Ouedraogo G. Geoffroy
  • Ouedraogo G. Geoffroy
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Ilboudo Sylvain
  • Ilboudo Sylvain
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Belemnaba Lazare
  • Belemnaba Lazare
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Ouedraogo Noufou
  • Ouedraogo Noufou
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Lompo Marius
  • Lompo Marius
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Kini B. Felix
  • Kini B. Felix
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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Ouedraogo Sylvin
  • Ouedraogo Sylvin
  • Department of Medicine and Traditional Pharmacopeia and Pharmacy (MEPHATRA/PH), Institute of Research in Health Science (IRSS), 03 PO 7192 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso.
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  •  Received: 02 February 2021
  •  Published: 28 February 2021

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