Are the days of HIV/AIDS pandemic finished, thanks to traditional medicine?
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, Ghanadot Ever since the first 42 cases of HIV/AIDS was documented in Ghana in 1986, the cure, public education and coordination of the pandemic has been played more or less around the template of neo-liberal Ghana, without corresponding input from traditional Ghana. The sense is that while orthodox medicine has been in the forefront of finding cure for the deadly disease, traditional medicine has not been accorded the same mileage, thus damping any attempts by traditional medicine to contribute meaningfully and respectfully to the cure of HIV/AIDS. This situation is not surprising. Neo-liberal Ghana not only looks down on traditional Ghana, for obvious historical reasons, but in a deadly disease like HIV/AIDS, has not incorporated the traditional as prominently as possible and as practical as feasible in the various attempts to contain the pandemic. The situation reflects the on-going schism between neo-liberal and traditional Ghana in the development process. A
