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'Sugar daddies' and 'blessers': A threat to AIDS fight
Durban, South Africa (AFP) July 21, 2016
Lebogang Motsumi, 27, still remembers the moment when she learnt she had contracted HIV from a man a decade her senior. "It was August 15, 2009, at 1:00pm," she said, recalling the instant when her life changed traumatically. "I was so ignorant," she said. "I thought HIV had a face" - thin, poor and dying - "and I wasn't that face." The man who infected her with the AIDS virus was a "sugar daddy" or, in local parlance, a "blesser" - an older man who "blesses" a younger, often poorer girl ... read more

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