Haiti: Voodoo priests enlisted in AIDS fight
Clement Bouvais, a Haitian voodoo priest, presides over the Temple de Nos Ancetres (Temple of Our Ancestors), a windowless wooden structure painted in fading shades of blue and red on a narrow side street in the southern coastal town of Jacmel.
Clement Bouvais outside the Temple de Nos Ancetres. (Image: Kristy Siegfried/IRIN)
The involvement of voodoo priests in the AIDS fight has echoes in South Africa and other countries in Africa, where traditional healers have been recruited to combat the pandemic.
It is dusk; the mosquitoes are biting and rats dart across the temple's dirt floor, but Bouvais, dressed appropriately for the tropical heat in shorts and a T-shirt does not appear to notice.
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