A woman’s journey fighting HIV stigma

HERS was not a rosy journey.

“I got diagnosed with HIV after an incident with my boyfriend in 2009 and since then I have been taking my medication,” recalls Maud Chinembiri (pictured), a mother of two.

She has lived with self-shame, self-blame as well as self-stigma, persecuting herself emotionally for contracting HIV.

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