Odette lives in the Gitega province of Burundi. A mother of two, she used to make a living by selling avocadoes. But after her husband abandoned the family, it became difficult to make ends meet. So, Odette turned to sex work. Shortly after doing so, she learned she was HIV-positive. Life became more and more
During COVID-19, we all experienced the chilling sensation of a world on stand still in the face of a deadly virus. We can identify with the panic and uncertainty that gripped the world when the virus was declared a global pandemic. Families shut their windows and doors in fear; churches fell silent, markets lay abandoned
In the remote and rugged landscape of Lesotho, high in the Drakensberg Mountains, 34-year-old herdsman Retsélisitsoe Tséle was tending his cattle with others from his community in Butha-Buthe district. As he herded his cattle across the vast plains near the Afriski Resort area, he was met by the RISE (Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic) Lesotho