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cord-260305-pl2ditn7	Nyika, Aceme	The ethics of improving African traditional medical practice: Scientific or African traditional research methods?	2009-11-30		.txt	text/plain	5288	202	42	Abstract The disease burden in Africa, which is relatively very large compared with developed countries, has been attributed to various factors that include poverty, food shortages, inadequate access to health care and unaffordability of Western medicines to the majority of African populations. This paper argues that continuing to use African traditional medicines for old and new diseases without making concerted efforts to improve their efficacy and safety is unethical since the disease burden affecting Africa may continue to rise in spite of the availability and accessibility of the traditional medicines. The involvement of such organizations as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) in promoting scientific research into ATM has enhanced conduction of various types of scientific studies aimed at improving the safety, efficacy and quality of traditional medicines (AACHRD, 2002) .	./cache/cord-260305-pl2ditn7.txt	./txt/cord-260305-pl2ditn7.txt