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Author: Alice Allan

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A young girl living with HIV in Uzbekistan looks at us from behind the trunk of a tree
Out of darkness and into light: My story

Out of darkness and into light: My story

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By Alice Allan

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I was born prematurely at seven months. The doctors told my mother that I probably wasn’t going to survive, so she left me in the hospital. At some point during my stay in the hospital I was given a blood transfusion. That was how I got HIV. When I was 14 days old my grandmother discovered I’d been born and came to get me. She has… Read more →←

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