Margaret Odera from Nairobi, Kenya. My name is Margaret Odera. I am a community health worker and a mentor mother. The advice that I give mothers is that by the end of the day, we want all our children to be free from HIV. So I tell the mothers to disclose no matter what circumstances will happen. Like I will tell them about myself. I am discordant. You know, we are a discordant couple. So we start from there because it is really difficult to speak to a mother that has been tested positive and the husband has been found negative. You know, in order to encourage them. I give an example of myself and I tell them we are discordant and we have children. So my husband is HIV negative and if the discordant couple can live and produce babies just like any other couple, the mothers get encouraged. And I am really happy because right now in Kenya, the positivity rate from mother to child transmission is below 2%. You know, and that is really encouraging for me as a mother. I feel the same thing I felt when my babies turned negative, when they tested negative. When an exposed baby turns HIV negative it is really encouraging for me, and even for that mother, They really celebrate. Some of them do a party because of that. It is really something to to encounter.
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