This document is an English translation of the research paper : “Tradithérapie, biomédecine et santé maternelle à Madagascar: paradoxes et pouvoirs autour des savoirs et pratiques des reninjaza”, Health, Culture and Society [online], Special issue: “Madagascar: Past, Present and Future. Cohabitation between traditional and modern medicine”, 7(1), 1-15. ISSN 2161-6590. Available at: <http://hcs.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/179International audiencePublic health development in Madagascar is not free from contradictory power dynamics surrounding medical knowledge, and often occurring between biomedicine and traditional healing. In the following paper, we will mainly focus on the therapeutic fields of maternal health, with mortality ...