UGANDA: Love, positively - new IRIN/PlusNews film
NAIROBI, 25 June 2008 (IRIN Film & TV) - Gordon Turibamwe, 20, has just finished high school and dreams of a career in the media; he and his girlfriend, Princess, are talking about the possibility of a future together. Ten years ago, this would have been next to impossible.Gordon and Princess, 22, have both been HIV-positive since birth, and both are alive because they have been on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) medication for several years now.
An estimated 27,000 children were born with HIV in 2007. According to Uganda's Joint Clinical Research Centre, without treatment, 66 percent of them will die before they are three years old.
IRIN/PlusNews's new film, Love, Positively looks at the lives of young adults who have been infected with HIV since birth.
Growing up with HIV has been far from easy: the stigma associated with HIV-positive people is high in Uganda, and school children can be particularly cruel.
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