It was five years ago when Margaret Kugonza’s husband died after spending just a few days in the hospital. “The doctor asked to see me after his funeral,” Margaret recalls. “I went and they did an HIV test.” Upon learning she tested positive for HIV, “my heart almost stopped,” Margaret says. She started antiretroviral therapy
Jhpiego has supported the government of Malawi to provide the HIV prevention intervention, voluntary medical male circumcision, to more than 700,000 young men and adolescents. A problem brought John Siliya to the health clinic in his village outside Malawi’s capital of Lilongwe. The pain he felt while urinating was diagnosed as a sexually transmitted infection,
One year ago, in a small town in northwest Sierra Leone, Catherine Kamara, a 24-year-old pregnant woman, tested positive for HIV during her antenatal care appointment. “The news of my health condition was overwhelming and scary,” says Catherine. “With counseling and encouragement from Nurse Tinny, I discussed it with my husband and asked him to
