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Issufo Pontina is 33 years old and he is from Mozambique; today he works in the “Comunitá di Sant’Egidio” in the project “DREAM” which try to guarantee dignity and medications to the prisoners of the several jails of Maputo. Before becoming an NGO worker, Issufo has also been a prisoner in the maximum-security jail of Maputo. In 2001 the first wife of Issufo dies for a haemorrhage and he is suddenly charged of murder and immediately gaoled. During the confinement, Issufo made friendship with a priest working in the jail that, once he listened Issufo’s story and beliving Issufo was innocent, start to help Issufo and push the authority to perform an autopsy to the death wife. The autopsy reveals that the woman was died for natural causes but also reveal she was HIV positive. After 1 year and 8 months of jail (and always without a trial) Issufo was released and he started working for the NGO “Comunitá di Sant’Egidio” in the “DREAM” project with the aim to help the HIV positive convicted.

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Issufo Pontina is 33 years old and he is from Mozambique; today he works in the “Comunitá di Sant’Egidio” in the project “DREAM” which try to guarantee dignity and medications to the prisoners of the several jails of Maputo. Before becoming an NGO worker, Issufo has also been a prisoner in the maximum-security jail of Maputo. In 2001 the first wife of Issufo dies for a haemorrhage and he is suddenly charged of murder and immediately gaoled. During the confinement, Issufo made friendship with a priest working in the jail that, once he listened Issufo’s story and beliving Issufo was innocent, start to help Issufo and push the authority to perform an autopsy to the death wife. The autopsy reveals that the woman was died for natural causes but also reveal she was HIV positive. After 1 year and 8 months of jail (and always without a trial) Issufo was released and he started working for the NGO “Comunitá di Sant’Egidio” in the “DREAM” project with the aim to help the HIV positive convicted.