Stigma: The Curse of Old People Living With HIV

By Michael Gwarisa “Go away old granny, How does someone your age get HIV, like seriously, where did you get the virus anyway?” These are some of the harsh realities older people living with the HIV virus in Zimbabwe encounter at health care centers on daily basis. In most cases, senior citizens surviving with the virus are denied access to medicines and life saving Anti Retro Viral (ARV) drugs, exposing them to even worse catastrophic circumstances such as developing HIV drug resistance. Gogo  Rudo Tenenga (67) of Chitungwiza has lived…

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