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Traditional Burkinabe Medicine: Hadja Bonkoungou, Ambassador of an Ancestral Knowledge "I Don't Need Sacrifice, Power Comes From God"

Traditional medicine is not a novelty in Burkina Faso. It has been integrated into the healthcare system since 1994, and has seen its legitimacy strengthened in 2013 by a decree aimed at establishing a reference-recourse system with conventional medicine. There are about 30,000 practitioners in Burkina Faso, of whom only about 450 are officially recognized by the Ministry of Health. Among these certified and highly publicized figures is Hadja Bo…
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Traditional medicine is not a novelty in Burkina Faso. It has been integrated into the healthcare system since 1994, and has seen its legitimacy strengthened in 2013 by a decree aimed at establishing a reference-recourse system with conventional medicine. There are about 30,000 practitioners in Burkina Faso, of whom only about 450 are officially recognized by the Ministry of Health. Among these certified and highly publicized figures is Hadja Bo…

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Digital Magazine Burkina broke the news in on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
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