Teenager overcomes early HIV setback

Some people advised me that he had phogwana (a problem associated with the fontanel), yet others said he had ditantanyane (gripes). I got to a point where I simply got tired of seeking treatment for the child," she says and looks at the boy as he sits reading.

It was at that 11th hour that Oboye Nkele, a peer educator at Baikamogedi Support Group in Moshupa visited her and persuaded her to take her baby for an HIV test. "I remember hearing people talking about this baby that was continually sick and decided to pay the mother a visit. The child had sunken eyes and protruding cheekbones and almost had a hunchback. Looking at the child, you would wonder if it would be alive the following day," Nkele says.