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Master of Public Health

Occupational hazards of traditional healers: Repeated unprotected blood exposures risk infectious disease transmission.

AUTHORS

Audet CM , Salato J , Blevins M , Silva W , González-Calvo L , Vermund SH , Gaspar F , . Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH. 2016 8 31; ().
  • NIHMSID: 9610576

ABSTRACT

Healers provide support for acute and chronic illnesses in rural Mozambique, such as socially acceptable traditional “vaccinations” (subcutaneous cuts in the skin to rub herbs directly into the bloody lesion). We aimed to document the frequency of blood exposure by traditional practitioners in Mozambique.

Healers provide support for acute and chronic illnesses in rural Mozambique, such as socially acceptable traditional “vaccinations” (subcutaneous cuts in the skin to rub herbs directly into the bloody lesion). We aimed to document the frequency of blood exposure by traditional practitioners in Mozambique.

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