May
20

2010
By

Mona

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Life is something which is not easy. I started to know that after my parents died of HIV in 2002. Nobody thought I was going to survive after I was seriously ill.

I stayed in a hospital for two months but the sickness did not stop. I was tested in the hospital and the result was positive. I was shocked and could not believe my ears because I had heard many stories about this disease. I thought that was the end of my life because I heard there were no drugs to treat this disease.

I started to take ARVs and surprisingly I am now gaining weight, I am growing healthy and beautiful and nobody can see with her bare eyes that I am HIV positive. I am proud to live this life because I am getting free drugs and food. I love my life and my doctors too.

Mona

May
8

2010
By

Kuwadzana Support Group

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Kuwadzana Support Group consists of HIV positive children who are from the age of eight up to 20 years of age. So far the average number is about 25 children at meetings of the group.

Things we do

  • We meet every first Saturday of the month.
  • We learn and discuss about different topics like, for example, child abuse, adherence, ARVs etc
  • we do debates
  • we sometimes take time to play indoor games like chess, playing cards, etc
  • we do role-plays, discussions on different case scenarios
  • we also take time to create something for the Zvandiri Newsletter like poems, stories, jokes, words of motivation, and painting etc
  • sometimes our aunts do us the physiotherapy just to relax our minds

Thank you