How many South Africans visit traditional healers

The 2014 General Household Survey found that public hospitals and clinics were the normal place of consultation for 69.3% of South African households.

In comparison, 24.6% of households normally consulted a private doctor while 4.3% favoured private hospitals and clinics.

The least favoured options were pharmacists (0.4%), spiritual healers (0.2%) and health facilities provided by employers (0.2%).

Only 0.5% of households reported normally consulting traditional healers when members of the household fell ill or were injured.

In 2013 Statistics South Africa conducted an analysis on the use of health facilities using data from the 2011 General Household Survey.

The analysis showed that 81.3% of black South African households first consulted public sector health facilities, 17.2% first consulted private sector health facilities and only 1.5% first consulted “other” health facilities, which include spiritual healers and traditional healers.

Interestingly, 1.5% of white South African households reported that they consulted “other” health facilities first.

The 2003 South Africa Demographic and Health Survey, published by the South African Medical Research Council and the Department of Health, asked respondents if they had consulted a traditional healer in the last 30 days.

Out of 8,115 respondents, 5.2% reported to have sought care from a traditional healer and 6% reported to have sought care from a faith healer. 38.6% of respondents reported consulting with a public sector health facility, 29.7% reported consulting with a private sector health facility and 12.3% consulted a pharmacist.

A study published in 2011 found “relatively low traditional healer utilisation rates” among the 21,593 household members surveyed.

Only 1.2% of the survey participants reported using traditional healers in the last month. In black households this figure increased to 1.4%.

The study also found that: “Concurrent use of traditional and allopathic providers is common: more than half the people who visited a traditional healer in the previous month had also used allopathic services.”

Similar findings have been recorded in Nigeria. A Comparative Assessment of Herbal and Orthodox Medicines in Nigeria found that “… only 41% of the respondents took herbal medicines as their first drug of choice.

This is contrary to the widely held view in literature that 80% of the population in developing countries takes only herbal medicines”.

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