"I Must Live!" Hospital Gives Hope To Central African HIV Patients
NDTV
The facility offers hope to those suffering from the incurable illness in the country, which has been racked by near-continuous civil war since 2013.
Annie struggles to draw breath after speaking and her spindly legs barely support her, but the Central African HIV sufferer continues to defy the debilitating illness.
"I have six children -- who is going to take care of them if I die? I must live!" the 37-year-old says, touching her neck which is bloated by swollen lymph nodes.
Annie has received treatment for three days in the only community hospital dedicated to caring for patients at an advanced stage of AIDS in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.
The facility offers hope to those suffering from the incurable illness in the country, which has been racked by near-continuous civil war since 2013.
