The burden of women with HIV in Bolivia
Photo by Juanma Rada for the Proyect HIV Bolivia of Hivos . Licence Creative Commons. This story was written by Dayana Martínez and published in Muy Waso on December 13. It was republished on Global Voices under an media partnership agreement. This text received the Second Honorable Mention of the 2023 National Feminist Journalism Award organized by Muy Waso. When Mariela, whose real name we are withholding for security reasons, received an HIV-positive diagnosis, her husband refused a test and decided to abandon their family. Hers is the reality of hundreds of women with HIV in Bolivia. Not o...