Universities, science councils and the government have been funding research into African traditional medicine, but it's the costly clinical trial stage that sets back the process.
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As we, in our isolated spaces due to lockdowns, celebrate African traditional medicine day on 31 August, we must intensify our call to the president for a Ministry of African Traditional Medicine to be responsible for driving the traditional medicine agenda in the interest of the majority of South Africans, writes University of KwaZulu-Natal's Professor Nceba Gqaleni.