(16 Jun 2024)
SOUTH AFRICA HIV TRADITIONAL HEALERS
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Bushbuckridge, South Africa – 9 May 2024
1. Wide of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane putting on his attire before a consultation
2. Wide of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane placing a beaded mat on the floor before a consultation
3. Wide of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane gathering his divination bones before a consultation
4. Mid of animal skin and bead-ware on the wall, showing his various medications used for traditional healing
5. Various of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane consulting with a client as he performs a bone throwing ritual
6. Various of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane chanting during a consultation with a client
7. SOUNDBITE (Zulu/English) Shadrack Mashabane, Traditional Healer:
“From the start, we begin with our traditional consultation work. Then I explain the HIV testing. Many didn’t really believe or trust that we can actually do this kind of thing, because it is unusual. What most people know is that testing only happens in clinics. So, at the very beginning (of the study), they really looked down on us.”
8. Wide of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane putting on his gloves while counselling a client
9. Various of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane performing an HIV prick test with a client
10. Mid of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane filling the blood collection tube of the HIV test tube
11. Wide of traditional healer Shadrack Mashabane speaking to client after conducting an HIV test
12. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Shadrack Mashabane, Traditional Healer:
“For some clients, going to the clinic (after their results) is a big problem. More so, especially among men, they dislike going to the clinic. So in trying to understand why they are so against going to the clinic, I found that they prefer to come to us (traditional healers). I found they had many concerns about discretion at the clinic. They don’t feel safe.”
13. Various of traditional healer Florence Khoza consulting with a client
14. Close of traditional healer Florence Khoza performing an HIV prick test with a client
15. Traditional healer Florence Khoza filling the blood collection tube of the HIV test
16. Close of collection tube
17. SOUNDBITE (Tsonga) Florence Khoza, Traditional Healer:
“It was very difficult for me I thought they are fooling us as traditional healers. At the end of the day I saw this as beneficial. I enjoyed this and understood what is HIV, how it is transmitted and how its not transmitted. I am enthusiastic. When working with someone with HIV, I ensure that I follow up so that they take their treatment correctly for them to live. I see that as important.”
18. Various of traditional healer Florence Khoza consulting with a client
19. SOUNDBITE (Tsonga): Florence Khoza, Traditional Healer
“I don’t give up if I test a person and find them positive I talk to them, encourage and advise them to go to the hospital. I keep their referral and wait for them to advise on when they can go to the clinic. Should they fail, I personally walk to the clinic, accompanying them, committing myself to take them to the clinic so they can get treatment.”
20. Florence Khoza disposing of test kit and her gloves after a consultation with a client
21. Wide of traditional healer Florence Khoza collecting her divination bones before a consultation with a client
22. Wide of a University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Agincourt research unit compound in rural Bushbuck Ridge
25. Mid of Mabuza looking at his laptop
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