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I said, my children, you know what?

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I\'ve got HIV.

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One day I will die and
leave you, my children.

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So you must be brave and
look after yourselves,

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and look after me.

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My husband died

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one year ago.

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He died with HIV.

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And it is the same HIV,
which my husband died with,

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I am suffering from.

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I\'m having HIV in my body.

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Sometimes I think of my child.

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If I die, where is he going?

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Who is going to keep him?

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If I saw people walking or even chatting,

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I think they are laughing at me

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because I have got HIV in my body.

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Sometimes I become speechless to them.

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Just staying in my house alone

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without anyone to chat with me.

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I think of my baby and my young sisters.

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That if I die, who is going to keep them?

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My name is Otilia Tasikani.

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They told me that you are HIV-positive.

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It came as a shock to me

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because at that time I knew
that I was going to die.

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And I thought that I was
going to leave my kids

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as orphans.

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I told the doctor that I was positive,

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and he advised me

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to take my child for an HIV test.

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The results came out positive.

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And it pains me quite a lot

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when he\'s not feeling well

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because I\'m always blaming myself.

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Why did I have that child

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when I knew that I\'m positive?

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I only come to discover that

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my daughter is HIV-infected

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about two months ago.

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I love my children so much.

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The biggest problem I have got now,

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I don\'t have enough money

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to buy the drugs for her.

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So if we fall sick,

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it is difficult for us
to work in our fields.

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We cannot harvest enough food to eat.

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So we are living with hunger.

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And we have found it difficult
to feed our children.

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There are people living below poverty.

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We cannot spend a dollar
a day for us to survive.

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We don\'t have.

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I cry at times

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because in life

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nobody can just give you money like a man.

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Prostitution, I\'m just doing
it for the difficult life

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I\'m having right now.

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It is very painful.

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Even if I want to eat, I
have to look for man.

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Even if I want soap to wash,
I have to look for man.

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Even if I want to buy clothes,
I have to look for man.

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Many times I\'m saying,
God maybe is not there.

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My name is Forget Gutuza.

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I like to work in my community.

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We go door to door

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visiting HIV patients.

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I\'m very proud of this.

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I don\'t get paid,

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but I know that God will pay me one day,

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so I am working for God.

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It gives me joy

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to be able to care for somebody

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who otherwise wouldn\'t be cared for.

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To bring them somewhere
where they can be cared for

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with dignity and with respect.

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And it\'s very sad to see

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most of these children dying.

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But there is nothing we can do

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to prevent them from dying.

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We just make sure that

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they enjoy their lives as much as they can

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and make them feel that
even if they\'re orphan

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or even if there is no one to give them

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support and care and love,

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we are here to do that for them.

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My name is Paddington Mazarura.

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Me and my wife discovered
that we are HIV-positive.

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It has been a difficult time.

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This thing came at a time
when I didn\'t expect it,

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in my prime time when I
was starting to climb up

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the ladder in the corporate world.

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It just sort of robbed me of everything,

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all my future.

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I became seriously ill.

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We were faced with huge medical bills.

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That left my wife, at that
time she was still teaching,

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she was the only one who had
to fend for the family.

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My name is Fortune Mazarura.

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I have been married for the past 20 years

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and I\'m HIV-positive.

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As a teacher,

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it was very difficult

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discovering that you are HIV-positive.

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It was difficult to tell any
other person about the issue.

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So I decided, let me do something about it.

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I had to disclose my status
to the whole school.

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Everybody cried, but I didn\'t cry.

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I wanted their encouragement,
their support,

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and I wanted them to see me the way I am.

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I\'m just trying to make
sure that other people

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know that HIV is not the end of the world.

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They can actually live with
HIV for a very long time.

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There is need for awareness

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because AIDS does not know color or creed.

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It doesn\'t care whether
you are educated or not.

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We are not talking about numbers only here,

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but we are talking of people,

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people whose contribution
would make a difference

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in the development of the country.

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HIV and AIDS has decimated

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so many, many families.

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They have no access to treatment

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because there is a shortage of drugs.

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It is a disease that one can survive with

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but there is a need for medication.

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There is need for education.

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So what we need to do
is people of this world

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is to unite so that we can
fight HIV and AIDS together.

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I wish, and it is my hope,

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that one day some people will hear us

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and come to our aid.