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Fighting the stigma around HIV/AIDS

"Keren [Gonzalez] has lived with HIV her entire life. Her family broke the news to her when she was five.

“My parents used drawings to explain it to me,” she said."

Read more on the UNICEF page and Yahoo News



Two new things I learned today about HIV/AIDS:

-Swaziland and Botswana are pretty much tied for the country with the most HIV/AIDS cases. Approximately 1/3rd of the country is living with the disease.

-The CDC understated number of new HIV infections in USA by 40%.

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