Why I love my job - Quote 12 and 13 of 20

“The first time I came here…eeesh…it was a problem. He couldn’t talk at all.”

A mother explaining how her 8 year-old began to learn how to speak after starting ARVs at age 7.

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“She tells me in SiSwati when she poops herself.”

A mother marveling at the fact that her nearly three year-old daughter has begun to use words after starting ARVs a few months ago. She never spoke prior to starting the medicines. (She also knows several other words besides "poop".)

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You see, HIV, when allowed to replicate freely, is very hard on the developing brain.