Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research Unit
GIS Mapping of Traditional Health Practitioners (THP’s)
The IKS [Health] is developing a GPS mapping of traditional health practitioners in the country. This project has started in KwaZulu-Natal. The project documents up to the point in the Globe the location of traditional healers, their specialties, their proximity to schools, clinics, hospitals and the population in their surrounds.
This is an ambitious project projected to last 3 years, to be updated annually. Funding is urgently and desperately needed to complete this work. Part of this work has been developed in KZN.
In addition to the above, there is a database of invalidated traditional uses of plants by traditional healers. This database is collected by IKS [Health] staff during their informal interactions with traditional healers and traditional communities.
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