Navaisha, Kenya—The grace and poise Veronika Wangeci radiates is truly misleading.
She stands tall and self-confident. Her thin, wide smile is that of a movie star, not of dirt-poor, sick and dying woman in the Kenyan countryside.
AIDS has reduced this mother of three to skin and bones. Her sister is already dead and Veronika would be too had it not been for the miraculous availability of antiretroviral medicines at a local charity.
Upon arrival of visitors, Veronika pulls herself up from the bed, washes some fruit and insists that her visitors have some.
