Speaker: Ms Mandisa Dukashe (South Africa)
Mandisa Dukashe is HIV-positive and is leading the fight for a 0% HIV transmission future. Through her NGO, HIV Survivors and Partners Network, she has partnered with the U = U campaign. Dukashe’s journey has been captured in her autobiography, As I Rise Above, published last year. In it she writes about her experiences as a young girl with an absent mom, raised by her grandmother, and about the rape by a trusted family member.