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by Vee Wright
When the HIV/AIDS test the Rev. Joyce Turner
Keller administers to a young woman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana comes
back negative, one breathes a huge sigh of relief and she does too.
Thousands
of miles away in Lagos, Nigeria, Daisy Uwakwe, an adolescent who has
been infected with HIV since birth, is becoming active in the fight
against the spread of HIV/AIDS among her peers. Daisy attends an HIV
youth camp run by Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA), an NGO founded by Morolake Odetoyinbo.
As
people unite to raise awareness of HIV on World AIDS Day, annually
observed on Dec. 1, Keller and Odetoyinbo, are on a mission. They are
among several women living with HIV/AIDS featured in a new documentary
"Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS." The 68-minute
documentary, directed and co-produced by Harriet Hirshorn, made its
North American premiere at "DOC NYC” in November.
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Source: NBC News
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