`She had skeletal hands, and was a pile of ribs and tiny boobs. We prosecute people for allowing animals to live like that, with those kinds of problems. How is it okay to allow humans to live like that?`
Uhai Centre is a front-line, Arusha-based agency that works with HIV-positive people, particularly women, orphans and vulnerable children.
Theresia was confined to a filthy foam mattress. She was unable to wear a skirt or pants because of genital infections, and could not speak because of severe thrush.
She was given medications for her opportunistic infections, but died 10 days after the Uhai team visited her.
`When the five year-old picked up the two year-old and walked out of the room, I saw their future,` Johnson says, close to tears. `It was awful. I have no idea what`s happened to those children or whether they`re even eating.`
HIV is indiscriminate, but in sub-Saharan Africa, and Tanzania in particular, it is an infection that targets women.
But it was not always this way
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