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Zimbabwean orphans Evans, 13, and Edmond Mahlangu, 8, crossed a mountain range on foot to get to Mozambique where they are slowly recovering on life-saving AIDS drugs in short supply back home.
"We walked for a day in the mountains. We had to keep quiet because of the guards," recounted the boys' 17-year-old sister, Emmaculate, who made the 10 kilometre (six miles) journey with her HIV-positive siblings at the beginning of February.
"It was tough above all for my brothers. They had to walk alone because I was carrying bags."
The children have taken refuge with an aunt not far from the Machipanda border post in the central Mozambican province of Manica.
Orphaned in 2006, the children lived with their grandmother in Mutare on the Zimbabwean side of the border until she banished them in January.
"My grandmother chased us away. She was afraid of the boys because they are sick. She was scared to touch them, even to cook for them," Emmaculate told AFP.
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