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June 21, 2006 -About a hundred students -- local healers, but also patients with AIDS looking for traditional treatments -- gather weekly under a glittering canopy at Dr.Sekagya's school for traditional medecine. Along with the basics of hygiene and…

June 21, 2006 -A child sleeps during a class about anatomy at a school for traditional medicine. About a hundred students -- local healers, but also patients with AIDS looking for traditional treatments -- gather weekly under a glittering canopy at…

June 21, 2006 -About a hundred students -- local healers, but also patients with AIDS looking for traditional treatments -- gather weekly under a glittering canopy at Dr.Sekagya's school for traditional medecine. Along with the basics of hygiene and…

June 20, 2006 - Traditional healer, Bece Otim, counsels a client who brought his son in for treatment that he must also take his pregnant wife to the hospital for Aids testing and possible preventive mother to child transmission treatment.

June 20, 2006 - A traditional healer shows some of the tools she uses to treat patients -- coins, shells, sticks, and animal fur.

June 20, 2006 - Traditional healer Anthony Okello, visits and counsels his patient Elel Simpo, who is suffering from an Aids related skin rash. Okello referred her to the local hospital for ARV's but treats her rash with traditional methods. As a…

June 20, 2006 - Lucy Ajam (left), 51, holds her ARVS and discusses her treatment with her traditonal healer Anthony Okello. As a teenager Anthony Okello, falling ill and near death, Okelleo was read his last rites and rushed to a traditional African…

June 20, 2006 - A nurse at the Apac hospital, Uganda, uses a traditional healing method -- the sap from a plant to treat an Aids related rash. In a country where doctors are rare and not often trusted, traditional medicine men are being tapped to…

Near Bullfrog Marina, a runabout that is left high and dry. Nearly two million annual visitors, mostly boater still flock to the shrunken lake.

Looking down on Reflection Canyon and the "bathtub ring" of calcite left behind by the falling water.