UN WITCH DOCTORS
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLQUACKERY is not the kind of medical practice that pharmaceutical manufacturers might expect the World Health Organisation (WHO) to promote, but facing sub-Saharan Africa's ever-increasing AIDS/HIV emergency, it will use any resource. It is not that WHO officials are recommending goats be buried in the front garden of any African HIV patient, but they are asking for the help of traditional health practitioners to promote standard prevention efforts. Many physicians will doubtless thumb their nose at using 'witch doctors' to fight AIDS, but the fact ...
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