{"id":6413,"date":"2015-03-27T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:22:49","slug":"the-legacy-of-one-womans-dream-to-help-people-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/the-legacy-of-one-womans-dream-to-help-people-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"The legacy of one woman\u2019s dream to help people with HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The son of the late Auxillia Chimusoro, who was the first woman to publicly disclose her HIV positive status in Zimbabwe in 1989, is ensuring his mother\u2019s work lives on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhaso.org\/2013\/09\/the-journey-of-auxillia-chimusoro-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">Auxillia Chimusoro\u2019s dream<\/a> was to assist those living with and affected by HIV and enable them to publicly disclose their status so that they do not suffer in silence.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, she set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhaso.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Batani HIV and AIDS Service Organisation<\/a> (BHASO), which today operates across five districts in Masvingo province \u2013 Gutu, Bikita, Zaka, Chivi, Masvingo rural and urban \u2013 with plans of reaching other places also.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Chimusoro died in 1998. Her son, Farai Mahaso, said: \u201cWhen my mother passed away Peter Marimi, the man she was working with, took over but then he went out of the country for some time. I started working at BHASO in 2003 after finishing at university. I later asked Peter to come back in Masvingo to revive the organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keycorrespondents.org\/2015\/03\/27\/the-legacy-of-one-woman%E2%80%99s-dream-to-help-people-with-hiv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article on the Key Correspondents website.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_practice_areas":[],"related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-6413","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_practice_areas?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}