The Nation Newspaper | Her HIV agony: "THE AIDS GIRL.
This was one of the many derogatory names given to a then six-year-old Peaches (her nickname) by schoolmates and her community.
Now 21, the trauma of her early years was still evident in her voice as she recounted her experience to the WEEKEND NATION, as one of the children born with HIV in Barbados in the 1980s.
Peaches had to shoulder a burden that no child should have to carry."
This was one of the many derogatory names given to a then six-year-old Peaches (her nickname) by schoolmates and her community.
Now 21, the trauma of her early years was still evident in her voice as she recounted her experience to the WEEKEND NATION, as one of the children born with HIV in Barbados in the 1980s.
Peaches had to shoulder a burden that no child should have to carry."
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