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As an African woman, I come from Tanzania,
*** has really brought to the forefront many
human rights issues that women have been facing.
Within the *** response today, it's very much a health response,
it's very much a medical response that ignores the fact that really *** is much more a social
issue than any other illness out there
and that requires much more than a health response,
much more than a medical response,
much more than having a test so that
the child that you have is not *** positive
because even after the child is born,
you're still going back to a particular situation
where you may end up being kicked out of your house,
are you safe enough and comfortable enough
to let your spouse and family know about your *** status.
Do you feel safe enough that you're not going to be physically abused?
Kicked out of your family?
And those are things that all happen outside of the health system,
and too little attention has been paid
to addressing these kinds of rights issues for women.
Transcribed and Subtitled by Hunter Holliman