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Traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS
Workshop in the Anthropology Department at SOAS.
In association with the Centre for African Studies and with support of UNESCO’s Culture and HIV/AIDS programme and the British Academy.
18th-19th April 2006.
Programme
Tuesday 18th April
9:30-10:00 Registration
Coffee
10:00-10:15 Opening remarks: Beckie Marsland
10:15-11:00 Keynote speaker: Dr Christopher Davis, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-1:00 Panel 1: Making Sense of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Chair: Dr Harry West (SOAS)
Diviner-Healers and Circulating Ideas about Sex, Blood and Witchcraft,
Central Sukuma-Nyamwezi area, Tanzania
Reea Hinkkanen, University of Helsinki
Tradition in Disguise: Contesting ‘the past’ and ‘the presence’ in Neo-Pentecostal healing in urban Tanzania.
Hansjoerg Dilger, Centre for African Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
From witchcraft to taboo: historical transformations of ‘traditional’ understandings of epidemic in western Kenya
PW Geissler, Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-3:30 Panel 2: Therapy and Practice
Chair: Dr Elisabeth Hsu (Oxford)
Traditional practitioners and the treatment of sexually transmitted infections in India: Implications for HIV prevention.
Helen Lambert, University of Bristol
AIDS and sexually transmitted infection causation beliefs and treatment-seeking behaviour in rural Mwanza, Tanzania.
Gerry Mshana, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
Good medicine: uses of traditional medicine in AIDS contexts among contemporary Native Americans from San Francisco, California
Max Carocci, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Management and Control of HIV/AIDS: Sociological analysis of Selected Renowned Traditional health practitioners in Nigeria.
Agunbiade Ojo Melvin, Ile Ife Nigeria
3:30-4:00 Tea
4:00-5:00 Panel 3: Crossing Borders
Chair: TBA
Last Hope: A Narrative of a Japanese Family who Travelled to India in Search for an HIV Cure.
Mari Hirano, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London
Vitality-enhancing Chinese Medical Treatment on the East African coast
Elisabeth Hsu, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Wednesday 19th April
COFFEE
9:30-11:00 Panel 4: Politics and Evaluation of Collaborations Between Traditional and Biomedicine
Chair: Dr Rijk van Djik, Centre for African Studies, Leiden
Can biomedical and traditional health care providers work together? Zambian practitioners’ experiences and attitudes towards collaboration in relation to STI and HIV/AIDS care
Phillimon Ndubani for the Bridging Gaps Project, Institute of Economic and Social Research (INESOR), University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Community-based intervention to improve the quality of HIV and STI care among traditional and biomedical health care providers in rural Uganda: a quasi-experimental study
Christine Nalwadda for the Bridging Gaps Project, Institute of Public Health (IPH), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS – Need for integration of traditional medicine and the associated indigenous healthcare knowledge in healthcare responses in Africa
Hamisi M. Malebo, Traditional Medicine Department, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
11:00-11:30 COFFEE
11:30-12:30 Panel 5: Patients’ views of Collaborations between Traditional Medicine and Biomedicine
Chair: TBA
Communities’ views on prerequisites for collaboration between modern and traditional health sectors in relation to HIV/AIDS and STI care in Zambia
Berthollet Bwira Kaboru for The Bridging Gaps Project, Division of International Health (IHCAR), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden
The patient’s perspective on intersectoral collaboration and quality of HIV and STI care: What can we learn from simulated clients?
Stephen Moore for the Bridging Gaps Project, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), University of London, London, UK
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-3:00 Panel 6: Explaining HIV
Chair: TBA
‘Its all in the blood’ narratives of traditional medical practices and HIV/AIDS in south India.
Kusum Gopal, LSE
Permanence and Change: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healing in Southern Tanzania
Julian M. Murchison, Millsaps College, USA
‘How does the virus enter the body?’ Conversations with traditional healers in Tanzania.
Rebecca Marsland, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies
3:00-3:30 TEA
3:30-5:00 Panel 7: Herbal Remedies and HIV/AIDS
Chair: TBA
What to do when a healer gives you medicinal herbs.
Merlin Wilcox, Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health
Traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS: Opportunities And Challenges Of Using Herbal Remedies For HIV/AIDS In Uganda.
Sophia Apio Kerwegi, Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Uganda.
The Forest Retreat of Orpul: A Holistic Response to Immune Suppression among the Maasai of Tanzania
Gemma Enolengila, Aang Serian, Tanzania
5:00-5:30 CLOSING COMMENTS Professor Murray Last, UCL
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