Egypt: Lifting the veil of taboo on HIV/AIDS

Souad never suspected how much her life was about to change when she was summoned four years ago by the Ministry of Health and Population to test for HIV/AIDS. There she was told that her husband had been tested positive for the virus two years earlier. Altogether, 2,115 cases of HIV/AIDS have been reported to the health ministry since 1986. However, UNAIDS reckons the infection is much more widespread in this country of 77 million people.