USAID FRONTLINES: It Takes a Village: Empowering Communities to Fight HIV
Twenty-three-year-old Thembi*, who lives in an informal settlement near Cape Town, South Africa, first learned she was HIV-positive in 2009 when she was pregnant with her daughter, Mackenzie*. After learning of her status at a routine prenatal check-up, Thembi, a single mother, was frightened and shocked. She worried about her own health and the health of her baby.
“In my culture, the community believes once you know you have HIV, that is when you become sick,” she said.
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