Sarah Wheeler
Sarah Wheeler is Senior Media Officer at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. She has worked for over ten years in communications in the NGO and private sectors, and as a documentary film producer. Travelling extensively, she has worked to raise environmental, disability, conflict and health issues in the media.
What do you tell your friends if you're a Brazilian teenager with HIV?
Author: sarah wheeler
One topic on the discussion table at this year's big International AIDS Conference in Mexico is the ever-increasing number of teenagers growing up HIV-positive and taking antiretrovirals, on top of the usual challenges of adolescence.
"I have a big load of responsibility in my life. I have to divide myself into so many parts that I don't know which of them I really am," says 17-year-old Marta from Brazil. "I have to be mother, daughter, friend, lover, wife. But most of the times I would like to be just a girl."
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Author: sarah wheeler
One topic on the discussion table at this year's big International AIDS Conference in Mexico is the ever-increasing number of teenagers growing up HIV-positive and taking antiretrovirals, on top of the usual challenges of adolescence.
"I have a big load of responsibility in my life. I have to divide myself into so many parts that I don't know which of them I really am," says 17-year-old Marta from Brazil. "I have to be mother, daughter, friend, lover, wife. But most of the times I would like to be just a girl."
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