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Article: HEAVY BURDEN
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- The Crisis
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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MANDENI, A RURAL VILLAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA, HAS BEEN RAVAGED BY AIDS. WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEAR MUCH OF THE LOAD
MANDENI, SOUTH AFRICA - Khumbuzile Cele is thin and gaunt. Cradled in a bed at Blessed Gerard's hospice, she struggles to raise her head to greet visitors, but only manages a weak smile.
Cele's throat and blotched tongue are swollen with thrush, a fungal infection of the mouth. It is painful for her to eat or to even speak above a whisper. But with the voice she finds, she tells her story.
Cele, whose first name in Zulu means "a token of remembrance," has AIDS.
A single mother, CeIe, 33, says she put off getting tested for HIV because she was "afraid of blood tests." She discovered ...
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