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How a loaf of bread made me discover I was HIV positive

Breakfast meal: Tea, bread and bananas.

Phenny Awiti loves food. Even as we sit for a chat some minutes to 1pm, she is thinking aloud of what she wants to have for lunch.

“I cannot have ugali. It will take a lot of time to prepare. I am thinking githeri, well fried with avocado,” she says and we both burst into llaughter.

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