Rural Euthanasia!
Continued misguided perceptions and stigma of HIV Aids, influence relatives to lock up sufferers in a hut with no food or water, in order to hasten death. This lonely death can take up to two weeks!...

Death in Isolation!
Many sufferers live alone with no help or support. Symptoms endured by patients include: fevers, diarrhea, festering sores, pneumonia, intense pain. Severe weakness, hinders changing of soiled clothing and bedding, fetching water, cooking food. Comfort or relief is beyond reach!....

Orphan “Nurses!”
Much publicity surrounds the plight of thousands of Aids orphans, yet little is mentioned concerning the severe psychological trauma and emotional scaring experienced by those children, forced to nurse, wash and feed their suffering parents!....

   
       
PRESENT SITUATION!

....Okhahlamba Population 150 000....
....20 000 people HIV infected....
....35% of pregnant women HIV positive...
....Bed space - Local hospital unable to cope.....
....Child run homes - the order of the day....

 
             
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