Uganda: PLWAS At the Centre of Aids Response

Lydia Mungherere speaks with passion about the need for antiretrovirals (ARVs), not only because she is a doctor - the first in Uganda to disclose being HIV positive - but also because she would be dead today if it weren't for the drugs.

In 1999, sick and unconscious, Mungherere was flown home from South Africa where she was working. ARVs pulled her back from the brink of death.

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