Puack, aged 4, is living with HIV and has been under the care of his stepmother Martha since his mother died of AIDS in 2012.
The child contracted the virus from birth. Before his mother died, when he was three months old, she suffered from different kinds of infections which appeared frequently and when she was tested for HIV, she was found to be positive.
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