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World Service,1 min

‘Are healers really doing any healing?’

The Documentary

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Benin, in West Africa, is a country in which 80% of people use traditional and spiritual healers to cure their ills. We hear about one mother’s struggle to provide mental health care for her son and from the man devoted to bringing modern psychiatry to Benin. Image: A market in Cotonou, Benin. Credit: Erick-Christian Ahounou/AFP/Getty Images

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