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Social

In: The Frugal Innovator

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  • Charles Leadbeater

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The women look scared. Twenty of them sit in dejected silence on low benches in the lobby of the crumbling 1960s health centre on the edge of Mathare North, a Nairobi slum. They are staring blankly and in a state of shock. These women, all in the early stages of pregnancy, have just had what must seem to them a dreadful judgement delivered upon them. When they visited the health centre for what might be their first and only formal health check during their pregnancy a blood test revealed they were HIV+. The diagnosis would have sounded like a death knell. Most would imagine they would die as outcasts from their families, after being shunned and neglected, unable to protect their orphaned children. They looked defeated, desperate and haunted.

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  • Charles Leadbeater, 2014. "Social," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Frugal Innovator, chapter 0, pages 121-139, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33537-1_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137335371_9
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