30 January 2017

Married for 17 years, Longok had no idea she was HIV positive until she heard rumors suggesting her husband was living with HIV and got herself tested. “I was so shocked because in my heart I knew that I have never cheated on my husband and he had found me a virgin when he married me at the age of 16,” says Mwatum Kitui Longok, a mother of six, from Moroto, a remote district located in Karamoja, north-eastern Uganda. At the age of 33 Longok’s life changed. Stigma and discrimination marred her daily reality; even her children faced societal exclusion. Her son sent home from school by his teacher because of his suspected HIV status.

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