'Don't want to die': Lesotho HIV patients look to traditional medicine

Lieketseng Lucia Tjatji, 34, a fashion designer and a traditional healer (sangoma), poses for a photograph inside her tin shack, where she practices her traditional healing, at her home in Maseru, Lesotho on March 19, 2025. [AFP]

In a sunlit shack on the outskirts of Lesotho's capital Maseru, 34-year-old Lieketseng Lucia Tjatji sits under a black cloth pegged to a tin wall and emblazoned with the head of a lion.