Passing On Life: The Story of a Sixteen-year-old Mother with HIV
| Author | Kenji Goto |
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| Publisher | Choubunsha Publishing |
| ISBN | 978 - 4811384740 |
| Category | Nonfiction |
| Estimated length | 97P |
| Size | 212 × 150 mm |
In the Republic of Estonia in northern Europe, there is a town on the Russian border called Narva, which is considered to be the ‘epicenter’ of the Estonian HIV epidemic. In this town lives 16-year-old Natasha, who got pregnant at 15, and is raising her baby, constantly in fear of mother-to-child HIV transmission…
Contents
- The AIDS Awareness Campaign
- AIDS Spreading in a Beautiful Country
- CVisiting the ‘Epicenter of AIDS’
- A 16-year-old Mother with HIV
- People Who Will Not Give Up
- Revisiting the Mother and Daughter
- C“You Will Not Be Alone”
- To Reduce Victims of AIDS
References
Afterword
About the Author
Born in 1967 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Kenji Goto worked as a freelance journalist and photographer until his sudden death at the hands of ISIS in January 2015. His 2005 book on child soldiers in Africa, I Want Peace More than Diamonds (Daiyamondo Yori Heiwa ga Hoshii) – an installment in a series – won the Sankei Children’s Book Award. His three other titles in the series are Passing On Life: The Story of a Sixteen-Year-Old Mother with HIV; Prayers of Rwanda: The Story of a Family Who Lived Through the Civil War; and If I Could Go to School: The Story of a Young Girl in Afghanistan. Kenji also contributed to Japanese television broadcasters NHK and TV Asahi. He worked tirelessly as a journalist to raise awareness of civilian suffering in war zones and continues to inspire many through his previous tweets (@kenjigotoip), which have gone viral. He is survived by his wife and daughter.
FOREIGN EDITIONS
| Publication | December, 2007 |
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