Kafue Pregnant Woman Commits Suicide After Testing Positive For HIV

A five months-pregnant woman of Nankanga in Kafue district has committed suicide after allegedly testing positive for HIV.
Her uncle, Mathews Musukwa, named the deceased as Marjorie Mwaluputa. Musukwa said the family was very disappointed with Mwaluputa’s decision to commit suicide because she was the only surviving child of his sister. “As a family, we are deeply shocked that Marjorie has taken her life in such a manner.
The family knew her as a decent and God-fearing girl whom we never thought would end her life in such a way.
We suspect she could have gone to antenatal for her pregnancy and that’s where she could have discovered that she was HIV-positive,” he said.
Musukwa appealed to parents and guardians to teach their children on the importance of abstaining from pre-marital sex as such were the results of sexual immorality.