You might have guessed it, Natasha was one of his 'clients'. Now the rumour is that she, and a few others like her, has got the virus. Last time I saw her was a couple of months ago. In any case, some of the good doctor's girls will die, that's for sure. He went on to explain that his cousin lives next door and in Natasha's yard dwell her mother, aunt, two brothers and one younger sister, plus a couple of cousins who fled the village during the war.
Aids is a long way to being tackled, let alone vanquished.
It's never as simple as we think. There's one aspect of the problem in the affluent nations and another in the southern hemisphere. Awareness campaigns are useful, to a point and surely all must be done so that women especially are given information and have access to advice. But economics play a large part in the equation. All names are real, all stories mentioned here are authentic, there is absolutely no fiction in the above account.