Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progress or containment. What is presented as pragmatism is, in fact, a set of political choices about access, timing, and scale
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The family is from Ethiopia and is in the country legally as an asylum seeker. She showed her papers, as well as the baby’s clinic card and Road to Health book.
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Lerato Kodisang
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‘I left everything behind just to survive’: a transgender woman’s journey through stigma, survival and HIV
Maanda Bele
Surviving HIV has given Makondo purpose. She has chosen to speak openly to show other young people, particularly those who are LGBTQI, that an HIV diagnosis isn’t a death sentence.
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