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Reflection: 34 years later, Asunta Wagura writes 'goodbye to HIV...'

Asunta Wagura in 2009. She has lived positively with HIV for over 34 years and has five HIV-negative children. [File, Standard]

One morning in 1989, as the country trudged with a mysterious health pandemic, Asunta Wagura was called to the principal's office.

Curt and unapologetic, the principal of the nursing school in Nairobi expelled Asunta from the institution and gave her six months to quit.

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