Alexander has a large family with six of his own children. When he fell sick one of Positive Aids community health workers was called. When he cycled to Alexanders home he found him laying on the mud floor of his mother’s hut which is against local culture, but he had nowhere else to lay and he was ready to die. One of his daughters had to come and cook for him, and sometimes he even had to rely on support from his neighbours, giving him little portions of food.

William carried Alexander on the back of his bicycle to the nearest health centre for urgent treatment. Alexander was first treated for TB, and then began anti-retroviral therapy for HIV which he is still taking today. At that time he couldn’t ride a bike, or even walk alone. Now he says he can do everything, he can even work and look after the cattle.

A personal triumph for Alexander was being able to build a new hut of his own, with his own hands. He now lives strong and vows not to stop taking the treatment he’s started, so that he never returns to the state he was in before.

Having been helped through this difficult process, Alexander thanks William and the other health workers like him, for all that they do for people in the villages. Alexander said that if he had a hen right now he would give it to William to say thank you. He says he now knows anything is possible.