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  • Passssengers on the train from Djibouti to Addis Ababa
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  • Passssengers on the train from Djibouti to Addis Ababa
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  • Sandra - "I knew very little about AIDS. I thought it was a sex workers disease, and promiscuous peoples disease. I used to think they deserved it. They should have married and had one partner. I always thought it could never happen to me. I never believed my husband could have it, I always trusted him. After he died my in-laws wouldn't let me use the toilets, the crockery, nothing: They thought that if my glass was on the table, they might use it and become infected, and they were even afraid of mosquito bites. Eventually they threw me out. If it hadn't been for the support of the rest of the community, I don't know what I would have done. I think about the sickness and death of my husband. I was there to look after him; he was wholly dependent on me. When the time comes for me to fall sick, who will be there for me?"
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  • Amit - "I was a wireless operator in the Indian Navy, and one of the first military personnel to be tested HIV positive. I was made into a sort of showpiece. Medical students would come and inspect me. I was told many times to remove my clothes and to stand naked, while they discussed the signs and symptoms. On every report it was written 'confidential', but there is nothing confidential as far as an armed forces hospital is concerned they shared my history with everybody. It was a good friend who stood by me and supported me, that saved me during this time. In 1996 I was invited to a national workshop on HIV. It changed my life. Since then I have been working with people who are HIV positive. Tomorrow I am thirty years old, I can honestly say that I am the happiest person alive. Though I am living with the virus, I don't have any problems with the virus. There are people who think that the virus is more important than the people who are living with it. I was Amit first; I became an HIV infected later. I am still the same person."
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  • Rajan. "I am forty years old and married with two children. I work as a trucker. Three years ago i was diagnosed as being HIV positive. My wife was also tested but was  negative. She was very disturbed. After four months she left, took the children with her and took up with someone else. Since then I only see my children from a distance at their school. I lead a lonely life now, my wife's entire family has been against  me, but I feel really confident. I take good care of myself, I get regular treatment and councelling, and I am still working. My family knows about my status, although most people just think I have TB and diabetes. All the people in my village are really supportive. My only real problem is the longing I feel for my children, loosing my family. The disease is not so serious, but what people do to the diseased is heartbreaking."
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