She decided to investigate whether he was going to South Africa to see another woman, but discovered that he was going to get antiretroviral (ARV) medication because he was HIV positive.
Miguel André's wife died in 2001, officially from typhoid fever, but before she died she told her child's godmother that she had AIDS. She never found the courage to tell her husband, but the news spread and soon everyone in Benguela, a coastal town in central Angola, was talking about it. André was the last to find out that his wife had been HIV positive.
