Seven-year-old Azamat is playing with his siblings at home in a village in southern Kazakhstan, tumbling around on the sofa and giggling. His parents would have found it hard to picture the scene six years ago, when they first learned that their son was HIV-positive.
Tbilisi resident Maya Sartania was already in the third stage of breast cancer when, some 14 years ago, she went to a doctor to see about a lump in her chest. An immediate mastectomy saved her life, but not all Georgian women are as lucky.
