While Brazil struggles to stem the tide of a massive illegal drug trade, and the accompanying wave of crime that kills poor, young males by the thousands, another epidemic is often forgotten. This is the addiction to a legal substance, shoe glue, the…
Traditional Healer Treats AIDS Patients, Tradition and the lack of Western medicine bring many Zambians to traditional healers. Dr. Syjungi says she can cure AIDS. Kaoma, Zambia, September, 1999.
Mohamed Bah, a barber before leaving the eastern provinces, keeps up his trade by cutting hair at the amputee camp where he now lives in Freetown, Sierra Leone.