The Ethnomedicine Practitioners Association of South Africa (EPASA) is a non profit federal organization that accredits and controls Ethnomedicine Practitioners. Its members are responsible for caring for public health in all spheres.
The Ethnomedicine Practitioners Association of South Africa (EPASA) was established in 1987, in order to promote, enhance and unify the practice of ethnomedicine in South Africa.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL OF SA
Dr. Isaac Kekana
Chairperson: EPASA
The Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (AHPCSA) officially informed EPASA on the 22nd November 2010 that Ethnomedicine has been accepted in principle. This decision by the AHPCSA is a historic and ground breaking event for South Africa, and indeed for the African Renaissance. We believe that an “African Ethnomedicine” benchmark has been set for Global expansion of the modality.
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA
APPLICATION FOR OPENING OF A REGISTER: ETHNOMEDICINE
NOTICE IN THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPERS ON
13TH FEBRUARY 2011
SUNDAY TIMES
RAPPORT
SUNDAY SUN
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
The application may be viewed on the AHPCSA website:
www.ahpcsa.co.za/ethnomedicine.htm
Allied Health Professions Council of SA
will soon have more info available on the website regarding Ethnomedicine
Link to AHPCSA website
http://www.ahpcsa.co.za/ethnomedicine.htm
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NEWSLETTER TO MEMBERS: DECEMBER 2010
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www.ahpcsa.co.za/ethnomedicine.htm
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
No 34019: Notice 78 of 2011
EPASA SUBMISSION
Please send your comments to
Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa
before 28th March 2011
ethno@ahpcsa.co.za
Fax: 012 329-2279
Postal Address:
Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa
Private Bag X4
Queenswood
0121
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The Draft Policy on Traditional Healing was Gazetted on 21 July 2008,
and open for public comment until the end of September. Both documents are available on the EPASA website.
More detailed information will be given
in a newsletter.
Congratulations and many thanks to
Dr. Isaac Kekana
Chairperson of EPASA
and
the Executive and other EPASA committees.
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WHAT IS EPASA?
| EPASA stands for Ethnomedicine Practitioners Association of South Africa and is a body which accredits and controls the ethnomedical practice. It's members are responsible for caring for public health in all spheres. |
HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
African Traditional Medicine is a mainstay of primary health care for the majority in Africa. About 80% of the population has relied on resources within their environment to survive since God's creation.
Plants, minerals and animals constitute the major natural resources ever used by mankind for preventative, curative and rehabilitative health in Africa. Like any other continent, these resources have been used for over ten thousand years by traditional health practitioners (THP's), who acquired their knowledge and skills through observation, spiritual revelation, personal experience, training and direct information from their predecessors. |
THE ROLE OF EMERGED SCIENTIFIC
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE SYSTEM:
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ETHNOMEDICINE "
What is Ethnomedicine Science? Ethnomedicine is a multi-disciplinary field of study that draws on approaches and methods from both the social and biological sciences, culturally based biological and environmental knowledge, cultural perception and cognition of the natural world, associated behaviours and practices, concerned with the cultural interpretations of health, disease and illness, and also addresses the health care seeking process and healing practices.It is a study of cultural concepts of health, disease and illness, and of the nature of healing systems.
Ethnomedicine has turned it's attention to laboratory research, which has been made possible by the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO). In fact, the traditional medicine programme of the WHO was precisely thought of as an answer to renewed interest for population therapies and remedies, in view of possible identification and utilisation within national health services. |
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EPASA
Helvetia House
Ground Floor
Greenvale Road
Wilbart
GERMISTON / EDENVALE BORDER
(N12 Highway: Edenvale Offramp)
HELVETIA HOUSE
TEL: 011-450-3845
FAX 0866245646
Office Hours
9am - 4pm
or
Tel: 0861 105 808
Cell: 0832664338
Dr. Mervyn Bartholomew
(CEO)
mervyn@epasa.co.za
Dr. Isaac Kekana
drkekana@epasa.co.za
e-mail: info@epasa.co.za
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DIRECTIONS TO OFFICES
GPS Co-Ordinates: S26.14779 ..... E028.13047
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