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South Africa: Reproductive Rights of HIV Positive People Under Discussion
Dec 20, 2006
by UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Few services are available for people living with HIV who want to conceive safely.
HIV-positive Phindile Madonsela always used a condom with her partner, but one day it broke. When it had happened before, she had gone to the local clinic and obtained emergency contraception, also known as the morning-after pill, but this time she did not go because she feared the disapproving attitude of the nurses. Later she discovered she was pregnant.
Madonsela, a volunteer HIV/AIDS educator for AIDS lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), had mixed feelings. "I promote condoms, so I felt very bad about being pregnant," she told PlusNews. "But I said to people, 'I'm positive, and I still have the right to have a baby.'"
Copyright 2006 UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200612200476.html
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 20 December 2006
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