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Traditional healers fight for recognition in South Africa's AIDS crisis

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In late November, protesters representing South Africa's Traditional Healers' Organisation (THO) marched to the TAC offices, chanting slogans against the TAC, pharmaceutical companies and the media for downplaying the role of traditional medicines in fighting AIDS.

The spat highlights a major issue in South Africa: deciding what role traditional healers and medicines should play in an epidemic that afflicts about 5.1 million people in the country.

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