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In the fight against AIDS, a UMKC professor pays a visit to some African witch doctors.
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In the fight against AIDS, a UMKC professor pays a visit to some African witch doctors.

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click to flip through (5) University of Missouri professors are conducting research at South Africa's Edendale Hospital. - Courtesy of Kathleen Goggin
       
 

Kathy Goggin

Bill Folk

Makhosi Mhlongo

AIDS research

sutherlandia

UMKC

South Africa

Pitch Podcast UMKC's Kathy Goggin explains in the Pitchcast how she went from growing up in the center of the AIDS epidemic to researching drugs used by African witch doctors. Listen to it here or in iTunes.

And click here to listen to Goggin’s interview on KCUR 89.3.

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They squeezed in next to each other in the small car. Folk was pressed up against the door in the back seat. As they headed out of the city, the healers all took out cell phones to call their families. They all spoke in English.

As they left the paved roads, Folk thought, I think we're in good shape now.

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