Benjamin Béchet / Odessa / Picturetank BEB0110283

Since I have been HIV positive I haven't been able to find a boyfriend ; you need to have an arrangement with another HIV positive person. With someone who is negative, when you tell him, he doesn't want to get involved. He's too frightened of catching it. I explained to my last boyfriend that I was being treated, but he still preferred to finished with me. People think they'll die if they get together with me'. Portraits of people infected with the HIV virus taking antiretroviral drugs in Mozambique. April 2007 for Doctors Without Borders.

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"When I came back and wanted to admit to my husband that I was seropositive, he threw me out, even before I could talk to him about it. I found myself all alone with nothing, on the street, lost." Leonor.

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"If people want to talk about me, let them. But the real subject is my health." Elisio.

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Candida, a laboratory technician. She takes the blood samples which are used to measure the state of the patient's immune system. This determines whether or not the patient will be put on a course of antiretroviral treatment.

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'For a long time I was too scared to come and take the test. One day I came, stayed a bit but then left. Today I have been waiting here for 5 hours, with a knot in my stomach; but I feel a bit better about it, even if I am HIV positive. I am who I am.' Eunice. Portraits of people infected with the HIV virus taking antiretroviral drugs in Mozambique. April 2007 for Doctors Without Borders.

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Louise is seropositive and 8 months pregnant. At the centre for the prevention of transmission to the child, she is following an antiretroviral treatment which greatly reduces the likelihood of transmission to her child.

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Francisco, 41, is a construction worker. He tested positive in February and started treatment on April 2, 2007.

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Francisco.

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Adelaide: 39 years old, mother of 3 girls. Here we see her working a temporary job as a cleaner at the hospital. Adelaide: « Does your husband accept to use condoms? » Rebecca: « He accepts, but anyway, now that he doesn't want any more children... At home we have a box of condoms but it's never empty!! »

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At Adelaide's house. In the kitchen, her two daughters have their evening meal.

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« I deplore the fact that there's so much ignorance, and that people don't come to be treated or tested. Because AIDS is not the killer, it's ignorance. Down with ignorance! » Clara, in the middle, with her church choir.

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Flora, one of Clara's neighbours, sings and prays for her husband, Armando, to get well. He has been bed-ridden for several years and has never taken an AIDS test. Portraits of people infected with the HIV virus taking antiretroviral drugs in Mozambique. April 2007 for Doctors Without Borders.

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« Hey handsome, haven't seen you in a while! You're lookin' good! » « - They're my grilfriends, they're surprised to see how I've changed. My situtation was really serious. It's amazing how people change with treatment. We come back to life! » Sauza.

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Lydia, 50, at home in Mafalala, a poor district of Maputo. Under antiretroviral treatment since February 2007, Lydia has difficulty keeping up with the treatment, she hasn't been on it for several weeks now. She says that hunger stops her following her treatment.

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