Nkurunziza, EgideSadiki, ElieEhui Prisca, JustineMinani, Rosette2025-11-102025-11-102025-06https://repository.ub.edu.bi/handle/123456789/2136Article de rechercheThe aim of this article is to describe the therapeutic responses of the population to malaria. Malaria has always been a major public health problem in Burundi. Once found only in low-lying areas, it is currently an epidemic in the commune of Rutegama, despite the development of modern medicine. With this in mind, we carried out a field study among healers, pharmacologists, nurses, community health workers, representatives of local religious denominations (Catholic and Protestant churches), the head of the national integrated malaria control programme, health centre managers, heads of families, women, malaria sufferers and non-malaria sufferers to understand why malaria is spreading so alarmingly in the central highlands. The information collected was gathered through observation and interviews, with content analysis.frArticle