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How mass rape in genocide transformed Rwanda’s response to AIDS

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Genocide survivor Assoumpta, 48, shows her anti-retroviral medication for AIDS treatment at her home in Muhanga district, about 50 km (30 miles) from the Rwandan capital, Kigali on April 7, 2019. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Nita Bhalla

Genocide survivor Assoumpta, 48, shows her anti-retroviral medication for AIDS treatment at her home in Muhanga district, about 50 km (30 miles) from the Rwandan capital, Kigali on April 7, 2019. THOMS

MUHANGA, Rwanda, April 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It would be ridiculous to ask 48-year-old Assoumpta who infected her with the AIDS virus. In the 100 days that spanned Rwanda’s genocide in 1994, she doesn’t know the number of times she was raped, let alone which men raped her. Read More

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