Nigeria: 12-Year-Old Hawker Now HIV Positive

13 August 2006

Kaduna — At nine, this girl sold bananas to feed her four siblings. In the process she fell prey to several randy men over a period of three years. Now she is HIV-positive in a poverty-stricken home.

Amina now shuttles between Jabi and Gwagwalada to collect anti-retroviral drugs for her daughter. But curiously enough, Onwumere who was also tested for HIV, tested negative.

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