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Stitches, A Doll Project - A women's support group meets weekly at Body Positive. A luncheon is usually provided with guest speakers or activities. The women at the group were given a naked doll and told to dress or decorate her as they wished. When they were finished they were asked to write what their doll would say if she could talk, relating to their HIV. Here are the dolls and their stories.

Thembi is 19 and lives in the township of Khayelitsha. For the past year she has been carrying around a tape recorder and keeping an audio diary of her struggle to live with AIDS.

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National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

In 2005, women represented 26 percent of new AIDS diagnoses, compared to only 11 percent of new AIDS cases reported in 1990. Most women are infected with HIV through heterosexual contact and injection drug use.

Women of color are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. AIDS is now the leading cause of death for Black women ages 25 to 34.

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