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02/12/2017

Weekend Woman's Hour: Nozi Samela, The Fix, Cook the Perfect... Tortilla

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Mentor Nozandulela 'Nozi' Samela on supporting mothers with HIV. Nieves Barragan Mohaco.

Nozi Samela on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa and around the world. We begin a series on the complexities of treating women with addictions.

South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV in the world. We hear from Nozandulela 'Nozi' Samela from the charity mothers2mothers. She tells us how she came to terms with her own HIV status and how through medication and education she managed to prevent passing the virus onto her unborn child and is now supporting other women in similar circumstances.

We discuss the implications of a case of a woman who had cohabited with her partner for sixteen years and won the right to compensation after he died as a result of medical negligence. How much of an impact will this decision have on the legal recognition of couples who have lived together but not married? We hear from the BBC Home Affairs Correspondent June Kelly and Jo Edwards former chair of Resolution, the national family lawyers' association.

How do gender differences shape women's experience and treatment for addiction? Dr Sally Marlow from Kings College London, Katharine Sacks-Jones agenda director from the alliance of organisations for women and girls at risk and Ian Hamilton a lecturer in addiction and mental health discuss, and we hear from three women who we are calling Georgia, Sam and Joanne about their experiences with addiction.

Thirteen year old Marcus who was born with a facial cleft and cleft palate talks about living with a facial disfigurement alongside his Mum Sam. A survey by the charity Changing Faces has found that almost half of those surveyed experienced bullying about their appearance at school. We also hear from Elizabeth Noble from Changing Faces.

How do you talk to children about death? We hear from Barbara Want, whose husband Nick Clarke died of cancer in 2006, on how she broke the news to her then four year old twins and from Victoria Milligan whose husband and daughter died in a speedboat accident in 2013 leaving her injured and with three children bereaved.

Charlotte Vincent the choreographer and dancer talks about her new all male production 'Shut Down': it examines notions of masculinity through dance.

And we Cook The Perfect...tortilla with chorizo with the chef Nieves Barragan Mohacho.

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