Ten-year-old Maggie's smile and laughter are infectious. She lives just outside of Kampala, Uganda, with her mother and three siblings.
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My name is Tatu and I am 37 years old. I am an HIV counselor at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Tanzania. I am also studying to obtain a bachelor's degree in science and nursing.
I am not sure when I contracted HIV. When I became pregnant in 2004, I went to the ANC at KCMC. I was given a blood test and discovered that I was HIV-positive. I was very shocked when I learned my HIV status and I felt scared for my health and the health of my baby. But the counselors at KCMC's PMTCT clinic, which EGPAF supports, gave me hope. They told me there were things I could do to prevent my baby from contracting HIV.
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Clay Meredith has been a member of the EGPAF family from the time he contacted EGPAF for information about HIV. He actively reaches out to the community and raises HIV/AIDS awareness through speaking engagements and by attending EGPAF events.
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My name is Perpetua and I am eight years old. I live in Cameroon with my caregiver, Awah, who treats me like her own child.
I do not remember my real mother. She died in 2001 because she had HIV. I was only five days old when she died. I am very sad about this, but I am glad that my mother received medicine to help prevent me from being born with the disease that took her life.
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My name is Beatrice and I am 22 years old. I live with my parents in Machame Aleni village in the Rombo district of Tanzania. I am a stay-at-home mother and also a part-time volunteer teacher at a nearby primary school. I have a daughter called Lightness Andrea, who is now 10 months old.
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My name is Amadeus. I am 17 years old. I was born in Mkuu Makiingi village in Rombo district, which is in northern Tanzania on the border with Kenya. I am the first-born of four children — I have two sisters and one brother. My father passed away when I was very young but my mother is still alive.
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My name is Faith and I live in the Masaka district of Uganda. I am 17 years old. I’m a member of the Ariel Children’s Club, a support group for children affected by HIV/AIDS that is sponsored by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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People think that HIV is a manageable disease, but I'm here to say that it is not. When I was two years old, I received a blood transfusion that infected me with HIV. Five years later, my family and I learned of my HIV-positive status.
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Like many other families, mine came to the United States from Puerto Rico in search of the American dream. America: where you could get a good job, health care, and the opportunity for a better education. As a child this is what I understood America to be. Unfortunately, close to two years after arriving in search of that dream, I was told that both of my parents and my baby sister, Ana, were infected with HIV.
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In the fall of 1989, my wife Susan and I were watching a Primetime special about children in Romania living in orphanages; they were all HIV-positive after receiving tainted transfusions. At the end of the show, viewers were invited to go to Romania as volunteers for six months to nurture these children with love and affection. At that point, Susan and I had been married 20 years and had no children of our own. Immediately, we knew this was right for us
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