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Healing Africa

Sister Mbaagatuzinda Narwoba, one of the orderlies of the Good Samaritans order is making a big difference out of a one-room clinic. Juggling different tasks all at once, the sister can be helping a young woman looking for medicines one minute, and informing a man he has been diagnosed with HIV on the other.

In Africa, modern heeling methods and spiritual heeling goes hand in hand. Father Anatori Wasswa, Narwoba?s boss and one of the best-known traditional healers in town, is not around. But that doesn?t stop the influx of patients seeking herbal remedies.

"People arrive here very much because they are afraid to use chemicals," says Ms. Narwoba. Her patients are not just simple villagers from the remote reaches of the jungle. They are also educated, urban Ugandans who, like 80 percent of sub-Saharan Africans, use traditional healing methods.