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Ten million Africans are infected with HIV. Eighteen million have already died from the virus. One in four children in Southern Africa has been orphaned. Forty-three million more Africans will die from AIDS by 2010.
In December 2000, I decided to reveal the individual stories behind these grim statistics. I began my work in Harare, Zimbabwe, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic. At first, it was difficult to grasp the fact that 35% of this beautiful country’s population is HIV-positive. But as people graciously opened their homes to me, I began to understand the pandemic’s human toll. In nearly every home- someone sick or dying from AIDS.
Mother Son
HIV positive mother baths her 19yr. old son who is dying of AIDS.
Old Mbvuku, Harare, Zimbabwe, March 2002
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