Forced to live a secret life: 16-year-old girl born HIV+ in Mukuru kwa Njenga
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“I always have a hard time maintaining the time to take my medication. I always have to hide and take my ARV’s in secret when I am in school, at times, I have to wait for others students to leave the dormitory so that I can take my pills.’�
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