New global anti-AIDS campaign kicks off

When Jeanette tested positive for HIV at the Kicukiro Health Centre in Kigali, Rwanda, during a prenatal check-up two years ago, “I didn’t cry or shout,” she told UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) researcher Alexia Lewnes. “But I was afraid. I thought I was going to die.” Just a few years ago, she would have been right. Only a tiny fraction of the millions of Africans in need of life-saving anti-AIDS drugs could afford them, and an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence for those who could not.