U.S. Embassy in Zambia interview with Hon. Princess Kasune on 20 Years of PEPFAR
Channel: Africa REACH
Date: 2023-04-03

To commemorate 20 years of momentum and impact, PEPFAR Zambia launched a Facebook campaign called #PEPFAR20 highlighting and documenting people living positively with HIV, linkages to care and raising awareness. To kickstart the series, Africa REACH Leadership Council Member Hon. Princess Kasune sat with the US Ambassador to Zambia, Michael Gonzales to talk about her journey with HIV and some of her personal and political advocacy with regards to HIV/AIDS in the region. 
Ahead of the PEPFAR announcement in 2003, Hon. Kasune was invited to the White House in Washington where she met with President George W. Bush and she says this reenergized her will as she sat in a room filled with people committed to the HIV/AIDS response in Africa. “Though I was infected with HIV, I knew that the answer lied in breaking the silence, the stigma and discrimination that was attached to HIV and AIDS and thus my story began,” she said in the interview.
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Disclaimer: This video belongs to the U.S. Embassy Zambia: https://www.facebook.com/usembassyzambia/videos/690148009468269