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Tears Wenzira, left, speaks to a customer at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July 2010.

Helping Educate Women About HIV

When she was younger, Tarisai “Tears” Wenzira dreamed of becoming a nurse, but when she was forced to drop out of school to support an extended family after her parents’ death, money was short.