Uniting behind a common goal: Collaboration between traditional healers and allopathic health care workers to improve rural snakebite care
Snakebite envenoming is an acute medical emergency which affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, primarily in remote rural areas of low-and middle income countries in the Global South. A considerable proportion of snakebite patients turn to traditional healers (THs) for help, driven by a...
Main Authors: | Jonathan Steinhorst, Frank-Leonel Tianyi, Abdulrazaq Garba Habib, George O. Oluoch, David G. Lalloo, Ymkje Stienstra |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-12-01
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Series: | Toxicon: X |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590171022000509 |
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