Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Stabbed for being positive: HIV stigma stalks Swaziland...

She and her husband, Mfanzile Dlamini, were HIV-positive and had already lost two babies to Aids.

They lived in a one-room hut in Mkhulamini, 50km east of the capital Mbabane, surviving on subsistence farming and Dlamini's meagre salary as a night watchman.

Dlamini's family, who owned the land they lived on, constantly harassed the couple about their HIV status. More...

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