According to NPR, three brothers lost both parents to AIDS after their parents lost access to HIV medications. Now young and orphaned, the boys are navigating adulthood together as a child-headed household, facing the practical and emotional weight of independence forced too soon. Their story underscores the fragile lifeline that medication access represents—and the human cost when that access is interrupted.

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