'I was scared for my life’: Global aid cuts put millions of mothers and babies at risk

'I was scared for my life’: Global aid cuts put millions of mothers and babies at risk

Liako Serobanyane was four months pregnant with her second child when she went to an antenatal class close to her home in Lesotho, a small mountainous country encircled by South Africa. ‘While there, I was tested for HIV and told I was HIV positive,’ she says. ‘There was no support or advice, nobody to tell me how to take care of myself or my unborn child.’ Back then, Liako says, nobody wanted to talk about HIV. ‘It was thought of as a death sen…