SIT Study Abroad: Madagascar: Traditional Medicine & Healthcare Systems
Location
- Madagascar
- Antananarivo
Term
Summer
Subject Areas
African Studies
Medicine
Need-based funding, Merit-based funding, General grants/scholarships, BIPOC funding
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Apr 23, 2024
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About Program
In Madagascar, one of the world’s globally recognized “megadiverse” countries, traditional medicine is practiced as an available, accessible, affordable, and effective method of healthcare. With flora and fauna not found anywhere else in the world, the nation’s unrivaled biodiversity plays a distinctive role in its traditional healthcare practices. From your base in the lushly exotic capital city of Antananarivo, you’ll explore traditional and allopathic healthcare, travel to rural areas to learn about ethnobotany, home and folk remedies, and healthcare access, and meet with leading academics, allopathic doctors, and Malagasy students.
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Program Highlights
- Discover a world apart where most flora and fauna exist only on the island.
- Understand the cultural, political, and socioeconomic contexts of healthcare.
- Live with local homestay families, enhance your French, and learn Malagasy.
- Trek through rainforests and a UNESCO World Heritage site mineral forest.
