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Posted AT 11:39 PM EST on 13/08/06

AIDS notebook

UNNATI GANDHI

From Monday's Globe and Mail

TORONTO — If you look deep into Mama Zodwa's tired brown eyes, there is a flicker of hope. It's the only thing that keeps the retired nurse from South Africa moving forward after both her son and daughter died of AIDS, after she discovered she had contracted HIV while nursing her dying daughter, and after her only grandchild was taken away from her. “I've lost everything,” she says with her eyes drawn shut.

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