ABSTRACT
A number of healers mentioned preventive measures such as condom usage and marital fidelity. A number of healers in the predominantly rural Tsonga "homeland" commented that people were no longer interested in thigh sex, one noting, "even the youngest want penetrative sexual intercourse." Informal interviews suggest that Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Control and prevention project training has boosted the healer's reputation in the community and may have improved the healer's practice as measured by an increase in clients. The clinic nurse was surprised to see a patient who had been referred and properly advised about Human immunodeficiency virus testing by a traditional healer. The whole subject of condoms and dildos was discussed at the July 1993 workshop for "first generation" healers. Healers were emphatic in saying they wanted the lifelike "erect dildos with veins, preferably brown." One might expect that the training provided to the first generation of healers would become somewhat diluted in the second generation.
