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Traditional healers' knowledge of HIV and AIDS was not as high as expected.

In some cases, traditional healers' knowledge of some of the signs and symptoms help them to diagnose that a person is diabetic.

Findings showed that there was an improvement in the traditional healers' knowledge of diabetes and their ability to apply the lessons learnt such as referring patients for blood glucose tests, stopping the practice of scarifying patients with diabetes, and initiating education activities for patients, peers, and other people in their communities about diabetes prevention and treatment.

Such health-seeking practices are characterised by "healer shopping" (switching numerous times between healers), poor knowledge of allopathic or formal clinical diagnosis, and using formal health care facilities such as the clinic as a last resort after traditional or informal therapies are judged to have failed [ 9].

Using the chi-square test statistic, the association between having received HIV and AIDS training or not, healer's knowledge of HIV and AIDS, HIV symptom identification as well as prevention behaviours and treatment practices were determined.

The following exclusion criteria applied: Healers: Lack of knowledge of the German language.

Many NTPs have also investigated traditional healers' and patients' knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding TB.

Only 2 out of 24 traditional healers interviewed had knowledge of P. guajava as an antidiarrhoeal agent.

In a context of inadequate human resources for health, this study investigated whether traditional healers have the knowledge and skill base which could be utilised to assist in the scaling up of HIV prevention and treatment services in South Africa.

However, this study was complemented by a study on traditional healers to assess their knowledge, attitudes and self-reported behaviours towards TB.

The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/12/36/prepub Special thanks are due to the traditional healers who shared their knowledge with us.