This article, titled ‘After Years of Silence, Women Living with HIV in the Middle East Speak Out’, is adapted from the UNAIDS report ‘Standing Up, Speaking Out: Women Living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa’. Both pieces were authored by Shereen El Feki.
The article provides first-hand accounts from women living with HIV in the Middle East, detailing the immense financial and psychological toll of the illness, while also providing key facts and figures including an overview of the magnitude of HIV-transmission in the region.