HIV disclosure: Unmasking the silence around HIV

Disclosure of HIV status, according to WHO, is an integral part of the process of living with HIV, and is crucial to continuum of HIV care. But as 58-year-old Irene Musarapasi from Makonde district in Mashonaland West would discover, it is not without its drawbacks especially when children are involved coupled with a community which is judgmental and moralistic.

Narrating her ordeal to health journalists in Chinhoyi recently, Musarapasi said she faced a mammoth task in disclosing her status to her children, family and community.

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