Recommendations for the Development of Regulatory Guidelines for Registration of Traditional Medicines in South Africa

Ngcobo, Mlungisi; Nkala, Bongani; Moodley, Indres; Gqaleni, Nceba

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“…[12][13][14] Furthermore, are the arguments about the difficulties of advancing uniform regulations under practices that operate within different cultures of the world. 15,16 This has led to arguments suggesting that people tasked with making national health regulations sometimes lack expertise or research data, which often lead to significant challenges in policy making. 12 There are also the issues of power that are argued to be central to every policy process and therefore affects implementation and intentions of policies, thus leading to unintended consequences.…”

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“…18 More so, are the suggestions that regulating THP practices and having all THPs registered will offer the cornerstone of involving THPs in the regulations of their products. 15 Therefore it is paramount that THPs and the traditional medicine systems (TMS) of the country are developed parallel to one another, allowing TM knowledge holders to safeguard their intellectual property. 6,15 These compound the importance of having THPs registered for regulation purposes.…”

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Barriers and facilitators of traditional health practitioners’ regulation requirements: a qualitative study

Nzimande

Moshabela

Zuma

et al. 2021

Journal of Global Health Reports

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THPs generally had mixed feelings about being registered; most saw very little, if any, potential benefits in being registered, except for recognition and legitimacy. THPs who found registration beneficial, remained sceptical about how it would impact their intellectual property and belief systems. Further exploration of the role of THP associations, their history and evolution and the influence they could have in driving THP regulation implementation process is warranted, especially since THPs found registering with such associations to be beneficial.The Alma Ata Declaration (1978) made by the International Conference on Primary Health Care was an important positive shift for traditional healthcare as it was acknowledge as the first to recognise the role of traditional medicine (TM) and its practitioners in primary healthcare. 1 This has contributed to a growing international popularity of TM creating benefits and opportunities for the TM users and the indigenous knowledge. [2][3][4][5] Consequently, biomedical health practitioners (BHPs) are increasingly reaching out for assistance from traditional health practitioners (THPs), espe-

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Barriers and facilitators of traditional health practitioners’ regulation requirements: a qualitative study

Nzimande

Moshabela

Zuma

et al. 2021

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“…However, there are currently no guidelines or framework for the registration of TM in South Africa. 37 There is no national regulation of herbal medicines; however, under draft regulations, herbal medicines will at least in part be regulated in the same way as conventional pharmaceuticals. 12 Herbal medicines are not given regulatory categories and T&CM providers practice in the private sector.…”

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Introduction:The implementation of traditional medicine strategies and their integration into the mainstream health systems by African governments has been a difficult process since its recommendation at the Alma Ata Conference of 1978.Objective: This paper seeks to review how traditional medicine has survivedand what various African countries have done to implement traditional healthcare strategies and their integration into the national health systems as recommended by the Alma Alta conference of 1978.Methodology: We purposively selected developed, middle income and African countries for the purpose of this review.We reviewed traditional medicine policies and programs in elevenpurposively selected countries from different political and economic blocks. We conducted a review of published works on traditional medicine implementation with more focus on the African continent. We have used the historical and thematic perspectives to obtain, organize and report data from published documents.Results: There is the public use of traditional medicine in every African country at very high proportions. African governments celebrate African Traditional Medicine Days. But very few African countries have fully implemented Alma Ata recommended traditional medicine strategies and integrated traditional medicine into their national health systems to the latter. Strong adherence to tradition has kept traditional medicine in African alive. However, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has revealed strong adherence of Africans and their governments to African Traditional Medicine. But the developed world sticks to standard conventional medical practices. This reverence is an acknowledgment of the truism that rather than integrating African medicine into conventional medicine, proponents of African medicine would want to operate parallel to conventional medicine or integrate it into the African medical system. Conclusion:African medicine exists in Africa as a culturally bound practice, therefore, providing solutions to health problems in situations where conventional medicine may not. It exists on its own without a real and strong legal framework to guide its practice because of its conflicting parallel validation methods to conventional medicine.

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“…In the developed world, people are increasingly using traditional medicines because of concerns regarding the potential side effects of synthetic drugs [21]. Traditional medication involves the use of herbal medicines, animal parts, and minerals.…”

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Innovative development path of ethnomedicines: an overview of ethnomedicines in China

Zhu¹,

Wang²,

Fu³

et al. 2016

Front. Med.

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In the long history of disease prevention and treatment, ancestral populations worldwide have gained knowledge and experiences in traditional medicines. For instance, ethnomedicines of Chinese ethnic minorities constitute an important part of traditional medicines. In our study, we firstly clarified the concept of ethnomedicines and the connotations of ethnopharmacology. The particularity of ethnomedicine research were then summed up, and the development profiles of the ethnomedicines of Chinese ethnic minorities were discussed by investigating the current status and existing problems. On this basis, we abstracted the innovative development path of ethnomedicines for the first time, which was found to follows:resource study ! standardized development research ! industrialization of the achievements and efforts for internationalization. We found that platform establishment and team training are keys to achieving innovative development. Hence, this study provided a basis for ethnomedicine development.

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Recommendations for the Development of Regulatory Guidelines for Registration of Traditional Medicines in South Africa

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