In South Africa, practitioners of traditional medicine, including herbalists, midwives, and faith healers who claim to speak to ancestors, have historically practiced openly and freely. But the ...

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Over the last 20 years of covering global health and infectious diseases, I have interviewed several traditional healers. You can’t really understand medicine in Africa without them.

South African traditional healers play a significant role for people that follow African cultural beliefs. There are more than 200,000 traditional healers across the country.

Foreword -- African religions -- Vodun -- For the Bamileke, death does not exist -- The Hogon foregoes physical contact -- Blue, the color of ritual death -- Sexual intercourse as mystical expression ...

An estimated 200,000 traditional healers are practicing in South Africa — there are almost 900 in this small district of some 200,000 people — and organizations like AMREF have trained just a ...

An estimated 200,000 traditional healers are practising in South Africa -- there are almost 900 in this small district of some 200,000 people -- and organisations like AMREF have trained just a ...

In the 2014 West African outbreak, which infected more than 11,000 people, the death of a prominent healer was a crucial “super-spreader event,” linked to over 300 cases.