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'Everybody Thought it Was Witchcraft, so He Died': Doctors Fight to Change Beliefs and Save Lives on Remote DRC Island
On the remote island of Idjwi in Africa's Great Lakes, locals believe rampaging tropical diseases are the manifestation of curses inflicted upon people who deserve to suffer.
A Mother’s Race to Save Her Sons on a Remote Island in Africa
VICE News followed a mother on a trek to the only hospital in northern Idjwi, an island in Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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