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In 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) identified access to medicine as a critical challenge in Africa, home to 1.2 billion people representing 15.24% of the global population. Unfortunately, many life-saving medicines remained inaccessible and unaffordable for a significant portion of the population, leading to preventable suffering and poor health outcomes.

Traditional medicine is often seen as more accessible, more affordable, and more acceptable to local populations and can therefore be a tool to help achieve universal health coverage. The provision of safe and effective traditional and alternative remedies could become an important way of increasing access to health care services.