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An HIV-free generation is closer than you think

No baby should be born with HIV in 2026. So how come many still are? | Gideon Mendel/Getty Images Ismail Harerimana grew up in Uganda not knowing why he was always sick. His childhood in the 1990s was a string of recurrent infections: malaria, diarrhea, headaches, and skin rashes. By 14, he was scarily thin, at which point doctors put him on a new medication that seemed to help. It was for kidney disease, his father falsely told him. But a classmate with the same prescription knew better. “Are you also suffering from kidney disease?” Harerimana remembers asking him. “And the boy said...