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Mauritius: No longer forbidden love

Last year, Camille Liu's* future was looking good. He had met a woman - "a perfect match" - while working in Mozambique as an electrician. They fell in love, decided to move to his home country, Mauritius, get married and have children.

10 Jun 2008

But when Anna Magurra* arrived on the tropical Indian Ocean island, ready to accept her fiancé's proposal, a few bureaucratic issues stood in the way of their marriage - one of them was an HIV test.

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