State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
has made indigenous peoples vulnerable as they cannot access the healing medicines and traditional food as they did in the past. Improving indigenous peoples’ situation needs their active participation in the design and implementation of health services. Legal recognition by states will help to pave the way for documenting and tackling the current challenges in health care. Adopting targeted intervention and conducting research will also go towards meeting the health care challenges, including the need to increase the level of accessible and responsive health services, document and preserve traditional medicine practices which are effective, improve education status and train indigenous health workers. Indigenous peoples’ resource and knowledge must not be discarded, otherwise Africa will be poorer.
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