Malawi: One Mother's Story of Living With HIV and Giving Birth

"My name is Chikondi Chikaonda. I am living with HIV and started child bearing at the age of 15. My first husband died on 29 August 2009, when I was pregnant."

Chikondi left secondary school at the age of 13. "I attended my first antenatal clinic in 2009 while six months pregnant. Now I have three children, all HIV negative, born at this Chileka Health Centre," she says.

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