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Professor John Harrington discusses how in Kenya after decades of repression, authorities are now actively seeking to modernise traditional medicine . He also highlights challenges in regulating and protecting intellectual property rights of those practising traditional medicine.

In rural areas of Cameroon formal health systems are struggling to provide basic health care for citizens. Dr Tara Kelly asks if integrating traditional approaches can help.

Jamie Hitchen looks ahead to when Sierra Leone is declared Ebola free and asks how the country can build an adequate health care system that offers sufficient support and protection to patients and staff.

11 of Sierra Leone’s 123 medical doctors have perished fighting Ebola. Jamie Hitchen sheds light on the burden that has fallen on local health care staff and questions whether they have received enough support and recognition.

Paul Adams reports from the launch of the AfDB and World Bank joint programme to support post-Ebola recovery, where the emphasis was on Africa’s responsibility to its fragile states.

This New Telegraph article features ARI's most recent Policy Voice , "Modern African Remedies: herbal medicine and community development in Nigeria".

“Traditional” medicine must be modern, professional and based in science if it is to contribute to improving health systems and outcomes in Africa.

Jamie Hitchen spent a fortnight in Nigeria in December 2014 working on a new publication about traditional medicine. Here he gives readers a glimpse into what an ARI research trip entails.

As schools closed because of Ebola get set to re-open in Sierra Leone, Jamie Hitchen looks at one group that won’t be returning to the classroom – pregnant teenagers – and the possible long-term implications.