Modern medicine: what place for traditional medicine?

Audio 01:42

Senegal wants to regulate traditional medicine by law, in particular by establishing the obligation to specialize in a field (illustrative image).

Kendra Helmer, USAID

By: Caroline Paré Follow

2 min

Traditional medicine is often opposed to so-called modern medicine.

Can these two types of medicine coexist? 

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Prof. Olivier Bouchaud

, head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department at the

Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny

 in the Paris region.

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