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Sexually transmitted infections and their diagnoses: Bapedi experience
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Semenya SS
; Potgieter MJ
Afr Health Sci
2013[Dec]; 13
(4
): 1047-53
PMID24940331
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BACKGROUND: The global burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is a
major concern to the World Health Organization (WHO). OBJECTIVE: To document STIs
treated by Bapedi traditional healers and their methods of diagnoses in the
Limpopo Province, South Africa. METHODS: A semi-structured questionnaire with
closed and open-ended questions was used to collect data from 34 traditional
healers, during a face-to-face interview. RESULTS: Five seemingly dissimilar
STIs; gonorrhoea, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS, nta (Bapedi-terminology) and syphilis were
identified as being treated by Bapedi traditional healers. With the exclusion of
HIV/AIDS, all STIs are known by healers via their vernacular names. Not all of
the recorded STIs are treated by all the questioned traditional healers.
Generally, diagnosis of these infections was based primarily on the presentation
of symptoms and certain behavioural traits; mostly unprotected sexual intercourse
with multiple partners. CONCLUSION: The current study concludes that Bapedi
traditional healers play an important role in the treatment STIs in the Limpopo
Province. Of concern is their diagnosis which is based primarily on the
presentation of symptoms and behavioural traits, which are not always accurate
indicators. Thus, to make their contribution to the treatment and management of
STIs beneficial, they have to receive elementary training in diagnostic methods
particularly for HIV/AIDS.