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...year-old South African mother with HIV, Babalwa Mbono, held First Lady Laura Bush and an East Room audience OF 200 spellbound on Monday as she told how she had turned an abusive marriage into a happy one by confronting her husband about her diagnosis despite the shame that she felt. "He was shocked," she said. "I was so angry." She said he went straight to a clinic and discovered that he, too, had the virus. "He was ashamed of himself," she said. "He apologized. After that, we had a good life, me and him." Their baby was born HIV...
...women who have come to Washington for the week to return the visit the First Lady made to their Mothers to Mothers-to-Be program in Cape Town, South Africa, last July. That is part of a larger group, Mothers 2 Mothers, a Cape Town-based mentoring program for HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers. The six women are site coordinators for the group, which provides support groups and counseling to help women disclose their status to loved ones and cope with the stigma they may feel. It also uses drugs, nutrition and education to try to prevent mothers...
...workers have been going door to door in Bangalore, interviewing 750 low-wage married women ages 16 to 25. What they've discovered is that in that group, employment and the extra income it provides, rather than empowering women, puts them at greater risk of physical violence and contracting HIV...
Women who marry later, says Krishnan, have more control over their sexual health and are far less likely to contract HIV. She believes that better access to higher education and higher-strata jobs will not only raise women's status but protect their health...
...Buxton's office is a 10-square-block area known as Downtown Eastside, where a shifting population of some 5,000 addicts huddle together, drawn to Vancouver for its relatively mild climate, generous social services and easy access to street drugs. The area also boasts the highest concentration of HIV and hepatitis-C cases in North America; more than 80% of its drug users test positive for hepatitis C and 25% for HIV...