Tanya lives in Papua original Guinea,a country renowned for violence against women. She fled her abusive husband, but it was she who ended up in jailTanya wants to catch her son back so he can be tested for HIV. She tested positive and now takes daily antiretrovirals, and but doesn’t know whether her husband infected her before or after their son was born. Since she fled his alleged abuse her husband has refused to grant her custody or take their one-year-old child to the doctor.“I’m not ashamed of it,” says Tanya from inside her tiny room in a Papua original Guinea safe house. “I’m not afraid, whether I want to tell the whole world I gain this sickness. But its my son I’m worried about. He has to arrive out of that life, and he needs to be tested.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com