The women who are immune to AIDS.
I highly recommend this article by The Guardian Observer about the prostitutes outside of Nairobi, Kenya, who have been found to be immune to HIV/AIDS.
I remember first hearing about these women while teaching in Uganda in 1997, but haven’t heard much about them since then.
The article is long, but riveting. It outlines the personal story of Agnes, and what brought her to prostitution, as well as the medical research clinics begun by Canadians that eventually picked up on the fact that, year after year, certain prostitutes in the study kept testing negative for HIV.
In a related article, The Manila Times is looking back at 25 years of the AIDS epidemic.
An entire generation has grown up with AIDS as part of their horizon. Let’s hope these women from Nairobi can help remove it again.
July 30th, 2007 at 7:20 am
[...] Earlier, I blogged about the Kenyan prostitutes who were immune to HIV. [...]