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HIV prevention training for traditional healers

    JOHANNESBURG

    The role of traditional healers in HIV prevention is receiving recognition in Mozambique's Maputo province.

    According to the local news agency, AIM, the provincial director of health, Abdul Mussa, said traditional practitioners could act as partners of the Health Ministry by carrying messages to rural communities not reached by the government's anti-AIDS programmes.

    The ministry urged the healers to inform, not to misinform, and called on them to abandon claims of AIDS cures in their propaganda.

    As part of the country's strategic plan against AIDS, healers have begun a 10-day course on how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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