Keketso – Queen of Positive Living

 
Keke learnt that she was HIV positive in 2000 and her first husband died of AIDS three years later. Keke says she believes he contracted HIV working in the mining industry in South Africa.

Despite this, Keke has been determined to show others, including her 13 year old son and ten year old daughter, that HIV need not stop anyone achieving amazing things. As an ‘Expert Patient’ at a local ARV center, Keketso now counsels and helps others who have HIV. In addition she regularly gives talks encouraging people of all ages to get tested and know their HIV status. Last November Keke even won the title of “Queen of Positive Living 2008”. And in September of 2009 she married her second husband, a man she describes as 'the man of her dreams'. Her husband is also HIV positive and they support each other.

Thanks to antiretroviral therapy which (RED) helps finance in Lesotho, Keke is well and leading a busy and very positive life. She is a great ambassador and role model as well as a reigning beauty queen!

It’s not always easy to be so open about being HIV positive in Lesotho but Keke is leading the way and reassuring people with her own dynamic and positive presence that living with HIV shouldn’t stop people from living full and positive lives.