Fighting the AIDS Prejudice

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Nkosi Johnson was South Africa’s longest surviving kid born with HIV positive. If Gail wasn’t his foster mother then he couldn’t become an icon of aspiration and courage. He always thankful and seek for a better way to live his life. Furthermore, Gail stood behind and supported him to go front of people. They were reliant on each other. They loved each other so much. If there was no faith among them, then their great accomplishments would never happen.

In South Africa, Gail was white women who have been against the obnoxious system called apartheid system, which separated people by their races. She wanted to do something, but she didn’t know what role she could play against the government. “And then 1991, Gail Johnson found a place where she thought, just maybe, she might belong. It was called the Guest House.”(95)

Nkosi was a black child who infected by AIDS since at his mother’s womb. Unfortunately, he and his mother were rejected from everywhere because of their disease. Then lately, he’s mother, Daphne heard about the Guest house and she desperately wanted live ther...

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