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/ 26 November 2005

‘It’s my secret, I can’t tell anyone’

In South Africa’s picturesque but Aids-ravaged Zulu heartland, the pandemic is rarely discussed and victims suffer in silence due to a mixture of ignorance, denial and fear. Nokuthula (54), who has been living with the disease for several years, says: ”If I tell the other people, they will be frightened and they will think I am going to die.”