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Ibu Mawar (not her real name) learned she was living with HIV after receiving a test during an antenatal care visit.  “I was surprised, of course, when they told me. But I didn’t really doubt or deny the result,” she remembered from the Sorong City Health Office in West Papua. She immediately started treatment to prevent transmission to her son. “Even though I’m positive,” she said, “our child is not.”