A mom with HIV and a ‘miracle’ healthy birth

Fortunata Kasege was just 22 years old when she arrived in this country 13 years ago from Tanzania. A newlywed with a baby on the way. She knew her life was about to change. What she didn’t know was how much. A visit to a prenatal clinic in Houston, Texas, revealed that she was HIV positive.

“I was horrified,” she remembers. “I felt dizzy–and fell out of my chair. And then I started to cry. I thought about my unborn baby and I cried for her. How would she survive?”