Tunisia's fight against Aids hampered by widespread discrimination | Simon Speakman Cordall

From Global development | The Guardian Mon Jul 21 2014, 06:00:03

Despite a comprehensive approach to combating HIV-Aids, ignorance about the disease pervades Tunisian society

Hamdi Sfaxi, who sells prayer rugs outside his local mosque in Tunis, has heard it all before. "If you're going to treat Aids," he says "you need to know where it came from. It didn't exist in the past. The first person to get Aids was a gay man who had sex with a monkey."

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