Traditional healers’ methods and indigenous plants are central to a new project seeking to identify treatments for HIV and AIDS at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine in Durban. The United States National Institute of Health is considering funding the project to test traditional medicines and therapies for treating AIDS patients holistically. Traditional healers from Mwelela Kweliphesheya, a development arm of KwaZulu-Natal Indigenous Healers, are providing information on the indigenous flora used in their methods, with the hope of testing their ingredients and eventually developing trial studies of patients.
