South Africa's traditional healers help fight HIV
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Tryphina Ngwenya slides a pink condom over the magic wooden stick normally used to conjure up ancestral spirits, unleashing a ripple of laughter among her audience of traditional South African healers.
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The first anti-AIDS vaginal gel to make it through late-stage testing failed to stop HIV infection in a study of 6,000 South African women
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Uganda is bringing traditional medicine out of the bush and integrating it into the national health system.
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South Africa&#39;s parliament has approved a bill formally recognizing traditional healers as heath care professionals. The National Assembly passed the bill Thursday to regulate the country&#39;s 200,000 traditional healers.
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As the campfire burns  slowly, a group of Aborigines build a &quot;place of healing&quot; in a  remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using  traditional bush medicines.
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Scientists say they may have found a new way to fight diseases like Aids and leukaemia.
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Using drugs to prevent HIV infection could prevent as many as 3 million new cases in Africa if it was done right, researchers predicted on Tuesday.
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South Africa announces a five-year plan to try to fight Aids and halve infection rates, on World Aids Day.
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South Africa's president called critics of his embattled health minister "wild animals" in a remarkable display of support for a woman decried by AIDS activists for advocating beets and garlic as remedies for the disease.
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South African Aids experts call for mass circumcision after studies showed it reduced HIV infections.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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NHULUNBUY, Australia  - As the campfire burns slowly, a group of Aborigines build a "place of healing" in a remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using traditional bush medicines.
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A bill to regulate South Africa's 200,000 traditional healers is adopted by parliament.
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Scientists working in Kenya believe that malaria is helping the spread of Aids across Africa - and vice versa.
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Johannesburg - South Africans can call the Nelson Mandela Foundation&#39;s toll-free number to donate their talents, time and skills to help in the fight against HIV/Aids.
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As a senior paediatric nurse at Zambia&#39;s top hospital, Mutinta Mwale is at the forefront of her country&#39;s desperate battle against the AIDS epidemic.
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The South African government has vowed to intensify its campaign against HIV/Aids. The campaign will include prevention, treatment and home-based care.