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Traditional `healers' key to AIDS-medication program in South Africa.
Byline: Laurie Goering
MOHLAKENG TOWNSHIP, South Africa _ Maria Mokhoane's treatment room may sport animal bones, powdered herbs and a copy of the Bible, but she also embraces modern medicine. For years the traditional healer has been helping tuberculosis patients in her community stick to taking their pills, and has persuaded the HIV-positive to visit the local hospital.
Now with the government last week launching the world's largest anti-retroviral treatment program for AIDS sufferers, she and a growing number of South Africa's 200,000 traditional healers are poised to play a role in making the program work.
Particularly in rural areas, South Africa lacks adequate doctors, and even the strongest advocates of the upcoming treatment effort worry that without enough oversight poorly educated AIDS patients may fail to take the new drugs properly, leading to resistant strains of the deadly disease.
That's where traditional healers, who live in communities and carry out more than 80 percent of the country's medical consultations, are expected to find a role, from making sure pills are…
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