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Mexico’s HIV-positive orphans look to the future

Oscar, above, is 10 years old and his favorite subject at school is math. He wants to be a lawyer when he grows up. Oscar also is HIV-positive, and he lost his parents to complications with the virus two years ago.

He lives in a community of children here at La Casa de la Sal (the House of Salt) in Mexico City. All of the 25 children in the home have been orphaned by HIV and have the virus themselves.

An estimated 2,934 children ages 14 and younger have HIV/AIDS in Mexico, according to Mexico’s national center for the Control and Prevention of Aids (CENSIDA) (link to PDF). Those are just the cases that have been detected, and there is a lack of reliable statistics on the issue.

Oscar and his friends are the lucky ones. La Casa, which has been open for 22 years, gives them access to antiretroviral drugs that may allow the children to live long enough to fulfill their ambitions.

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This post was written for La Plaza.

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About the Author: MexicoReporter.com is the personal website of Deborah Bonello, a multi-media journalist based Mexico City. Deborah is a freelance journalist who spends the majority of her time working as a contract blogger, news assistant and video journalist for the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau. The views presented here do NOT represent those of the Los Angeles Times.

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