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Once physically incapacitated by their disease, many people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or AIDS have found new life, thanks to the increasing availability of antiretroviral drugs. But for many patients in sub-Saharan African countries, the devastating physical effects have been replaced by debilitating psychological conditions: social isolation and the condemnation of their family, friends, and society.

I met Ama at the Fevers Unit of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, an HIV–AIDS clinic in Accra, Ghana, where I had gone to interview patients about their experiences taking antiretroviral medications. Having been infected, and then abandoned, by her husband a few . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Blackstock is an intern in the program in primary care and social medicine at Montefiore Medical Center, New York.

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