Here are some videos that will help you all try to understand the terrible effects AIDS has on the people of Tanzania and all around Africa. I'll quote a couple of really important lines but they're all pretty short and important to watch.
"You know, for us elderly rural people we aren't aware of what's going on. We look after our sick and pray to God."
"It is better if I died and they stayed with their children. But they all died, and I stay with the children. And I have little strength left."
"My name is Fulgenzia Mpelembwa. I had eight kids. Seven of them died."
Fulgenzia is 70 years old, and is stuck farming and doing extreme manual labor with her grandchildren to make a living, since all of their parents fell victim to AIDS.
This is the issue that is so sensitive and important to all the people who live where I'm going, and as the woman in the first video mentioned, they are relatively uneducated about how to protect themselves and their loved ones.
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