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Nature 443, 626-627 (12 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443626a; Published online 11 October 2006
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AIDS in Africa: A question of trust
Natasha Bolognesi1
- Natasha Bolognesi is a freelance health writer based in Cape Town.
Abstract
AIDS treatment in South Africa is often a tug-of-war between clinicians and traditional healers. Natasha Bolognesi meets a woman who is uniquely qualified to heal the rift.
For most people in the developed world, the words 'traditional healer' conjure up the image of a figure cloaked in beads, animal pelts and an air of impenetrable mystery. Someone, in short, whom Western-ers find difficult to understand or trust, and who has rejected biomedical science in favour of mysticism and magic.
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