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When families must reconcile traditional healing beliefs with modern medical needs

My daughter is gay and HIV-positive and my extended family comes from a tradition that views both as spiritual illnesses requiring different healing than Western medicine - we love her but we're fracturing over how to support her health in ways that honor our beliefs and actually help her.

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Love and tradition collide when ancestral healing wisdom meets contemporary medical realities.

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“Where Are You with Medical ethics across traditions?”

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