BUSHBUCKRIDGE, South Africa (AP) — The walls of Shadrack Mashabane’s hut in the rural South African town of Bushbuckridge are covered with traditional fabrics, with a small window the only source of ...

In places like Uganda, mental health issues are often still linked to spirits. — -- Before the sun rises, psychiatric nurse Immaculate Owembabazi makes her way to a small district hospital in the ...

MTUBATUBA, South Africa (Reuters) - 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 ...

Vol. 58, No. 3, Special Section: Mental Health, The Mind and Consciousness: Tibetan and Western Approaches (June 2019), pp. 833-846 (14 pages) Traditional and faith healing is a common practice in ...

The Meghalaya government has launched an innovative tuberculosis (TB) control initiative that integrates traditional healers into modern medical efforts to combat the disease. The programme is ...