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Angelique

Rwanda

19 years

Student

Orphaned, 2 sisters

On antiretroviral therapy

Angelique was born HIV positive and was told of her status when she was 10 years old. She and her sisters lost both their parents to AIDS many years ago.

Before Angelique started taking antiretroviral medicine, she had been too ill to go to school. The worst thing, she says, was the sickness which affected her eyesight so she couldn’t study or read at all. But now, thanks to ARV’s, she’s healthy, she’s in school and doing very well.

Despite the true hardships she and her sisters face to keep themselves clothed and fed, Angelique says she feels the future is bright. Learning from her own doctors, she says she hopes to one day be able to study medicine and become a doctor herself.