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AHF Launches “YouTube” Campaign:
"Congress—Save AIDS Treatment in PEPFAR"
Jenny Boyce, a mother living with HIV/AIDS in Durban, South Africa, tells the story of how treatment saved her life
Lydia Nyide speaks about her 11-year-old granddaughter Phumla whose life was saved by treatment
Today AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) launched a “YouTube” video to press Congress to preserve AIDS treatment in PEPFAR. “Save AIDS Treatment in PEPFAR” features Jenny Boyce, a mother living with HIV/AIDS in Durban, South Africa, Lydia Nyide—also from Durban—whose 11-year-old granddaughter Phumla is living with HIV/AIDS and Njabulo Mabaso, M.D., Deputy Medical Director of AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Ithembalabantu “People’s Hope” Clinic.
Because of lifesaving treatment, Jenny’s children are not orphans and Lydia’s granddaughter Phumla is thriving. HIV/AIDS treatment has saved their lives and families.
Lydia and Phumla urged Senators to reinstate treatment funding requirements during their visit to Washington, D.C. last month. Jenny and Dr. Mabaso arrive in Washington D.C. this week and will join representatives from AIDS Healthcare Foundation to continue to lobby Congress to preserve HIV/AIDS treatment funding in PEPFAR.

Dr. Mabaso: “Jenny has a very touching story. When she started being sick her kids were still very young. But, she’s managed to take two of them though to university simply because now she’s well. She can work.”
Jenny: “It’s so much easier today because when we are diagnosed—when people are diagnosed, when they are concerned, afraid of what will happen to their families, the hope is that treatment is available.”

Lydia: “When my daughter was still alive she was worried about Phumla. I said I was going to look after her. Phumla was a sickly child. It was bad. When Phumla was seriously ill I had to come to the clinic twice a week.”
Dr. Mabaso: “We started her on treatment, monitored her. Fortunately, she didn’t have many side effects and she immediately improved and started doing well in school. Now, she’s a happy 11 year old.”