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Evelyn Hockstein

TIME/Polaris Images

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 healer. Where modern medicine failed, charms and herbs prevailed, and Okello apprenticed himself to the wandering witchdoctor, learning to mix medicines and summon spirits. But when patient Lucy Ajam complained of rashes and diarrhea, he recognized the first signs of AIDS and sent her to the nearest hospital.

Evelyn Hockstein, "None," in POYi Archive, Item #45199, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/45199 (accessed November 22, 2024).