Sufferers are not expected to live much beyond the age of 14 – but despite the grim prognosis Ali has refused to give up hope.
‘I very much want to live and I hope there is medicine for my condition out there. I'm not scared of death but my parents have suffered a lot,' he said.
‘I'd love to live much longer for them. I don't want to burden them with any more pain.'
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