27 January 2017
Nearly five years ago, when Safaa was 26 and a mother of two, she discovered that she had HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) - a disease which destroys the immune system of its host. To her, this was worse than a death sentence - it would force her to keep her medical history secret from even her closest relatives for the rest of her life. Fearing that her relatives would not accept the news of her infection, she managed to…