For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured
billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the …

This review discusses a growing body of scholarship at the intersection of anthropology and
science and technology studies (STS) that examines how drugs are rendered efficacious in …

We use a randomized evaluation of a Kenyan deworming program to estimate peer effects
in technology adoption and to shed light on foreign aid donors' movement towards …

We review 34 quantitative studies that have measured individual-level variations in
ethnobotanical knowledge, analyzing how those studies have conceptualized and …

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess the use of traditional herbal
medicine by AIDS patients in Kabarole District, western Uganda. Using systematic sampling …

Discover neglected wild food sources—that can also be used as medicine! The long-
standing notion of “food as medicine, medicine as food,” can be traced back to Hippocrates …

Background The practice of traditional and complementary medicine is increasing in most
low-and middle-income countries especially for chronic communicable and non …

In a follow-up to studies of school-children's medical knowledge among the rural Luo of
western Kenya, seven mothers were asked for their knowledge of plant medicine, and the 91 …

When conducting medical field research in a Luo village in western Kenya, my colleagues
and I were occasionally suspected of being blood-thieves, locally called kachinja. The article …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Given the increasing coverage of antiretroviral therapy
(ART) for HIV/AIDS treatment as well as the high utilization of herbal medicine, many …