A mother at 15 and widowed at 16, Widy has suffered betrayal and hardship on the streets of Jakarta. The teenage single mother was infected with HIV/Aids by her high school sweetheart, who had been using heroin during their relationship.
He died when Ms Widy was eight months pregnant with their daughter. Only on his death did she learn that her husband died of HIV and that she herself was infected.
By then it was too late for her child to receive crucial prenatal treatment. Although she delivered the baby by Caesarean section, her daughter was diagnosed with HIV at three months. 'I am very, very angry. I would stab him if he were still alive today,' said Ms Widy, now 18, of her husband.
As if on cue, Ms Widy and several other women in their teens and early 20s in the Yayasan Pelita Ilmu (YPI) drop-in centre joined in a chorus of disapproval and anger. They each told a tale of being betrayed by a deceased husband, who had left them battling HIV/Aids. The women had gathered at one of several shelters scattered across the Indonesian capital.
Formed in 1989, YPI was Indonesia's first NGO dedicated to fighting HIV/Aids. Its drop-in centre has three bedrooms and it often serves not only as a monthly meeting place for about 30 people with HIV, but also as temporary shelter for those whose families cannot accept their condition.
Across Asia HIV/Aids is continuing to ruin millions of lives.
'Nearly half a million people in the Asia-Pacific region are infected with HIV every year and as many as 300,000 of those infected die - more than the total killed in the 2004 tsunami,' said Prasada Rao, Asia Pacific regional director of UNAids, at the International Congress on Aids in Asia and the Pacific in Colombo, held in August.