Thursday, June 17, 2010

Day 5 (Unique)

Today we went to the Constitutional Court and I read a body map on a woman who was infected with HIV. When Ncedeka was pregnant she went to the doctor to get an HIV test it showed up negative, but she was HIV positive. She breast fed her daughter and passed mother to child transmission. Her daughter became very sick she took her to many doctors but they all said the same thing. They said she was fine when she wasn't. They told her she just had to take medicine. She never got better her first child died at the age of  a year and four months. Since then she wondered how long she was going to live if she was taking her medicine every day. After i read that I felt sad because her first child had to die and she wondered if she can have another child with out transmitting HIV to it. 

1 comment:

  1. Angela Wilkins-HymanJune 17, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    Hi Unique,
    I love your sincerity about the mother you were writing about. Maybe you will be able to teach some of our young people when you come home. I hope you continue to have a wonderful
    time. Guess what I had to fix Erica's hair in a band today. I told her she must really miss you :)
    Love you,
    Ms. Wilkins

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