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Essay / Combating AIDS-related stigma - 638
Nkosi Johnson was the longest-surviving child born with HIV in South Africa. If Gail were not his adoptive mother, he could not become an icon of aspiration and courage. He is always grateful and looking for a better way to live his life. Additionally, Gail stood behind and helped him introduce himself in front of people. They depended on each other. They loved each other so much. If there was no faith among them, then their great achievements would never have happened. In South Africa, Gail was a white woman who opposed the abhorrent system called the apartheid system, which separated people according to their races. She wanted to do something, but she didn't know what role she could play against the government. “And then, in 1991, Gail Johnson found a place where she thought, maybe, she could fit in. It was called the Guest House. »(95) Nkosi was a black child infected with AIDS from the womb. Unfortunately, he and his mother were rejected everywhere because of their illness. Then recently her mother, Daphne heard about the guest house and she desperately wanted to live there....