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PROMETRA's Mission
The Mission of PROMETRA
International is to promote and protect traditional medicine and indigenous
science. This mission is accomplished through:
1) Scientific research and provision of traditional
medicine services
2) Education, training and advocacy
3)
Scientific, cultural and spiritual exchanges
PROMETRA International
is headquartered in Dakar, Senegal and has 22 officially recognized
chapter organizations throughout the world.
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Since
February 21, 2003, the Africa WHO decided to institute, every 31 August,
the African Traditional Medicine Day, following the adoption in the
year 2000 of a resolution on “the Promotion of the Role of Traditional
Medicine in Health System: Strategy of the African Region“. Resolution
that inscribe itself in the Plan of action of the Decade of Traditional
Medicine (2001-2010).
PROMETRA
International sized the opportunity by doing her best and getting ready
and to make her representatives participate in this very important
appointment for health in general and for Traditional Medicine in
particular.
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MISSION OF FOLLOW-UP OF THE SUPPORT PROGRAM TO THE
NATIONAL PROGRAM OF GOOD GOVERNANCE / PROJECT 9 ACP Se 12 / EUROPEAN
FUND OF DEVELOPMENT
PROMETRA
International received in her premises, on Tuesday 12th
August 2008, a composed delegation of the European union, of the unit of
Management of the 9th FED Project, of the Direction of Debt
and investment, of the Platform of non state control Actors. All
committed structures in the setting of the funds allocated by the 9th
European Fund of development to organisms of the civil society.
The visit
of work is placed under the aegis of the National organiser Delegated of
the FED and whose goal is to
bring if need be, the necessary corrective to the conduct by PROMETRA
International, of project titled: « Implication of th e
Tradipractitioners of Health in the counselling of Health Problems
relative to the Survival of Mother and Child ». An opportunity offered
to members of the delegation, to take account of enterprises activities
to contribute to the strengthening of capacities of the
tradipractitioners of Health by the Healers’ self-proficiency
training FAPEG METHOD clarification by PROMETRA International.
Some
fruitful exchanges made it possible to have a better control of the
objectives aimed by the European union in the domain of good governance
implying non state control actors better.
Family photo with Members of PROMETRA
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The waho INVITES TO A COLLABORATION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL
AND MODERN MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS
The Dr
Kofi BUSIA, Professional, in charged of Traditional Medicine in the
West African Organisation of Health coordinated in May 2008 in Ghana,
the meeting of an exchange forum between practitioners of the
traditional medicine and their colleagues of the conventional medicine.
Turnouts of such a meeting should incite ministries of health of States
members of the CEDEAO, to consider audacious manner, of further reforms
for a judicious introduction of traditional medicine in their
national health system.
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PROMETRA
INTERNATIONAL TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF SENEGAL
 Monday
14 July 2008, Mrs. Safiatou THIAM, Minister of Health and Prevention of
Senegal, received in her premises, a delegation of PROMETRA
International under the leadership of his President, Dr Erick GBODOSSOU.
The
meeting enabled the Minister to take note of the big projects of
PROMETRA International in domains of the medical research, of the fight
against the malnutrition and the organization of health
tradipractitioners. Mrs. THIAM pled for a close collaboration between
the medicines modern and traditional as aiming the same target, the
patient in search of a very sanitary being. She invited all actors to
mobilize themselves for a better organization of the exer cise
and practice of the traditional medicine and invited the ministerial
cabinet to grant a full attention to the file relative to the enactment
of the law which concerned this issue.
The
appraisal of PROMETRA International will be solicited each time this is
necessary. Mrs. the Minister expressed her quick interest for the well
stocked efforts of medical research by actors in traditional medicine.
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IMALAAH to
the discovery of CEMETRA
The
CEMETRA of Fatick to Senegal welcomed IMALAAH center whose members came
to inquire about the work of Health tradipractitioners of MALANGO
association. The delegation piloted by Mrs. Avelina MERKEL
-Physiotherapist - and Daouda SAGNA -etiopathe – composed of strong
thirty members. The visitors were received under the palaver tree for
exchanges concerning the experiences o f
the some and others about African tradithérapie,
etiopathy
and magnetism. The CEMETRA and the IMALAAH center consider collaborating
in the area of widening the alternative therapy range. The IMALAAH
center delivers care by massages using plants based products, the Aloe
vera, of essential oils.
Family
picture of the IMALAAH center with Traditional Healers and Managers of
CEMETRA
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XOY: ANNUAL
CEREMONY OF DIVINATION IN SEEREER COUNTRY
Located
in the heart of Senegal, the seereer country shelters at the approach of
every raining season, ceremonies of public divination or XOY during
which the Saltigi - great master seer exercises himself. Seereer
represent one of the majority ethnics in Senegal and preserve
foundations of their traditional practices that hold on their collective
memory again.
 Since
03 decades, PROMETRA International accompanies these wise men and
spiritual seereer leader’s in the organization of such ceremonies of
divination of which the one of 2008 held at the Experimental Traditional
Medicine Center (CEMETRA) of Fatick. Was predicted with a beneficial
raining season that is going to encourage good harvests.
On the
social plan, the political authorities are invited to consult to
attenuate conflicts and other contentious susceptible that might disrupt
the peaceful climate so dear to the populations. In favor of peace and
social harmony, families were advised, should give 1kg of sugar, 7m
of white cloth, a bowl of cooked porridge of millet as offerings.
The XOY
has the detail to continue divinatory incantation beyond. It prolongs
itself in the propitiatory rituals of Wise men and the Saltigi that
implore the negative aspects of their clairvoyance, by the slant of
reclusions of prayers and offerings.
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THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY CELEBRATED BY
THE AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE
AND PROMETRA INTERNATIONAL
May 21,
2008, the International Day of Cultural Diversity has been celebrated in
Senegal under the initiative of the alliance Cultural African (ACA) in
partnership with the Ministry of Culture, BREDA UNESCO and PROMETRA
International. Mr. Mame Birame DIOUF, Minister of Culture, of the
Classified Historic Heritage, of the National Languages and the
Francophone, presided the official opening ceremony of the Day and
proposed to institute a Price that rewards actors working in efficient
manner to the rehabilitation of knowledge and how to do traditional .
A
symposium has been organized on the theme « African Women and Cultural
Diversity ». Under the leadership of PROMETRA International, the great
master seer Saltigi and the Ndëepkats priestesses ethno psychiatry of
communal group, participated actively to the Day while holding a talk
under the palaver tree –on the theme « African Woman Traditherapy, and
Spirituality». During the discussion, the Saltigi and Ndëepkats answered
favorably to the invitation of the Ministry of Culture for a
collaboration that would encourage taking into account of endogenous
knowledge in strategies of cultural development.
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PROMETRA INTERNATIONAL TOWARD A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
MINISTRY OF BIOmaSS, THE RENEWABLE ENERGIES AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
On Monday
19 May 2008, PROMETRA International was received in audience by Mr.
Christian Sina DIATTA, Minister of the Bio carburant, the renewable
Energies and the scientific Research, who has always been following with
particular interest, works achieved by PROMETRA International. The
meeting goal is to reinforce the partnership between the two structures,
concerning development of knowledge and traditional ability, for the
assessment of knowledge and how to do traditional in the optics to
create some protected data banks on traditional knowledge.
PROMETRA
International announced the state of her researches in progress that has
the objectives to contribute in search of local solutions to problems of
local health of the African populations confronted with epidemics and
other pandemics. At the national level, the strategic Plan 2006/2010 of
the Ministry conceive the setting up of a favorable environment for a
quality research, adapted, coordinated and responding to the demand. For
this to be, the ministry tackled
the identification of levels and shapes of partner involvement in the
great under construction understanding between African Center of
researches and applications, Center of Researches and Testing, the
Scientific and Technological Park, the Planetarium.
But it is
equally necessary to propose a consensual authorized setting based on a
scientific and rigorous methodological approach. In a near future, the
Minister intends to do a working visit in PROMETRA International to see
better for himself the works of research done by a partner that,
according to the Minister, reached a level of certain maturity in the
setting of his plan of pan African action
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PROMETRA INTERNATIONAL, PRIVILEGED PARTNER OF THE WEST
AFRICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION (waho)
On March
31 to April 03, 2008 and on the 05 to May 08, 2008, PROMETRA
International participle in the works of WAHO having united the experts
charged with the development of a global strategy for the development
of Traditional Medicine in members States of the ECOWAS ( Economic
Communities Of West African States). These meetings permitted to deepen
works started since the last year following the nomination in 2007 of Dr
Kofi BUSIA, Professional in charge of traditional medicine. This
coordinates in the name of the WAHO, meetings of experts of the ECOWAS
space for the assessment of the development of Traditional Medicine in
member States and the clarification of an Advocacy Plan for harmonized
political and authorized setting.
Represented in 24 countries through the world of which 17 in Africa,
PROMETRA International participates in these meetings as partner, to
share her Pan-African experience in the safeguard and the rehabilitation
of knowledge and how to do traditional. The forming of a partnership
between WAHO and PROMETRA International is judged beneficial by the two
parts in areas :
·
to
the funding of better and convenient traditional medicine promotion,
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to
the backing of the advocacy in favor of the introduction of Traditional
Medicine in the national health systems of member countries,
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to
the extension of workshops for the trainings of health
tradipractitioners as agents of IEC (Information Education
Communication) with the suitable FAPEG educational method (Formation of
Healer auto Perfection) clarification by PROMETRA International.
The
support of the WAHO shall come in balance to the advocacy initiated
since 03 decade and dedicated from 2003 to 2006, by the setting of the
Project UNDP-New York / Cooperation South South under the conduct of
PROMETRA International in French-speaking, English-speaking Africa,
Portuguese-speaking Africa; for a judicious introduction of Traditional
Medicine in the National Health systems of the Third World.
Family picture of Accra
conference
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A NEW TEAM OF PROMETRA IN HAITI AND TO HOLY DOMINGUE
In
Haiti, a new committee has been set up in Haiti to strengthen activities
of PROMETRA International in this country. This committee includes:
Lucien Martial :
Coordinating - Timé Elimond : Coordinator attaches
- Jusmé Jean Kledy : Secretary to information - Laventure
Jean Ronald : Chief of Staff - Dorcenay Jean Wadner :
Vice secretary - Dr Mrs. Timé Innocent : Treasurer
- Mrs. Siméo n
Yolène : Councilwoman - Mrs. Archibald Edna :
Councilwoman - Bernadeau Jean Brunel : Responsible public
relations -
Labastille
Rodrigue : to Counsel
Mr. Lucien
Martial (on the right) and Mr. Asiatico Marino (on the left)
To Saint
Domingue, Mr. Asiatico Marino initiates with a committee of 9 members,
activists of PROMETRA in this country.
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