Herbs and hope in HIV crisis


Tjatji inside her tin shack, where she practises her traditional healing, at her home in Maseru, Lesotho. — AFP

IN a sunlit shack on the outskirts of Lesotho’s capital Maseru, 34-year-old Lieketseng Lucia Tjatji sits under a black cloth pegged to a tin wall and emblazoned with the head of a lion.

To her left, a wooden table is weighed down by containers of roots, powders and dried herbs, remedies she now offers to HIV patients who have been cut off from vital medication after US President Donald Trump’s aid freeze in February.

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