Mingaw Huyi, a member of the Akha hill tribe that lives in northern Thailand, told me her husband, an injecting drug user, died 3 years before I met with her in June 2003. Shortly before his death, she was pregnant with their fifth child and went in for a prenatal exam. A blood test revealed that she, too, had become infected. "The doctor who told me didn't show any kindness," says Mingaw, who like other Akha say they suffer discrimination. "I was speechless. I was filled with grief." |
