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HIV, a viral disease, is transmitted through unsafe sex, blood transmission, and mother-to-child through breastfeeding and birth. [iStockphoto]

She became ill and watched her husband die of HIV as she prepared for her own death at the turn of the Millennium.

When Brenda*, 87, was diagnosed with HIV in 2001, her only wish to her family was not to be buried in a polythene bag as witnessed during Covid-19 pandemic.

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