I've been in this Envoy role for just over two years. The issues related to the pandemic ebb and flow, but remain much the same --- care, prevention, treatment, stigma, discrimination, gender, orphans, leadership --- they all continue to reverberate, unceasingly, as we struggle to overcome HIV/AIDS.
Thembi Zungu is a senior nurse living with HIV in Port Elizabeth. She disclosed her status in 1996 after living in denial for five years. Her decision met with mixed reaction from her nursing colleagues. Thembi says she did so because she has witnessed too many nurses dying from HIV-related illnesses without anyone acknowledging this.
Researchers believe they have studies that can avert the potential de-registration of nevirapine.
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