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Colin Lloyd with NGO worker in Mumbai during Positive Lives project. Photo: Shahidul Alam/Majority World F13 R51 Frame 14, 15
Melissa is a transsexual commercial sex worker. She is HIV positive and lives in a small and destroyed hotel where she works and lives together with other transsexuals. She is addicted to crack.
Photograph by Pep Bonet / Noor.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
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Alberto Lino 'Keisy Kawami' (right) is 23 years old, she is a transsexual commercial sex worker, She is HIV negative and lives in La Ceiba. She won the contest of miss Gay Honduras in the year 2001. Here she is getting dressed together with Wilmer 'Sasha' ,31 years old, she is HIV positive and a transsexual commercial sex worker also.
Photograph by Pep Bonet / Noor.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Suman Ppapat Gorad - “It was really shocking for me when I tested HIV positive one-and-half years ago after my husband died through AIDS. But the most horrible time was when the whole village refused to send their children to the school where I work as a cook; they demanded I stop working there as I am a HIV positive. They believed I could spread the virus amongst the children. I wanted to commit suicide during that time, but then I met with an organization called SANGRAM that helps and support positive people. They heard my story and immediately started a campaign in my village to help everyone understand the truths and facts of HIV. After this I was able to start working again in the school. I have three children. To support my family I have my job at the school and I also have my own farmland where I grow crops. I just want to live, work and look after my children”.
Photograph by Nilayan Dutta / Drik.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Kamla Bai Pani - “At the age of 12 I was forced to work as a sex worker in a brothel in the neighboring state Karnataka. Now I run a brothel myself in Sangli, Maharastra. Here I also work as peer educator in my area to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS among sex workers. Now all the girls in this area know the benefit of using condoms, they even refuse clients who insist on having sex without a condom. I also run workshops in other states to train others of my community to fight against the virus”.
Photograph by Nilayan Dutta / Drik.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Faustina Zambrano is the grandmother of Wilson Noel Avila (right), Gustavo Adolfo Avila (middle) and Oscar Javier Avila (left), their parents both died of AIDS and left one of the children infected with HIV. Now their grandmother is taking care of them, she owns a small grocery shop that helps them survive.
Photograph by Pep Bonet / Noor.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Asha Papaso Masal - “No one told me about HIV/AIDS even after my husband died. In 2001 I went to meet a counselor in the village as she was doing an awareness campaign about HIV/AIDS. She told me about the virus and insisted I go for the test. I went with my children and the blood report came back positive. Now I live in my ancestral home with my two children, 5 year old Sachin and 10 year old Priyanka. My elder son Santosh died last month, he was just 7 years old. Here In my ancestral place I have our own farmland where I grow crop to support my family. I will be very happy if there is any drug existing, which could cure the disease”.
Photograph by Nilayan Dutta / Drik.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Obdulia de Jesus Aguilar is the grandmother of Meylin Melisa hernandez (left) and Sandis Anibal Hernandez (right), both children are orphans because their parents died of AIDS.
Photograph by Pep Bonet / Noor.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Nikita & Neelam - 10 year old Nikita and 7 year old Neelam live with their grandparents and their uncle. They have an older brother, Nitin, who has tested negative. The children lost both parents through AIDS related illnesses over the past seven years. Both sisters were born HIV positive. Their uncle runs a tailoring shop to support the family.
Photograph by Nilayan Dutta / Drik.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Ermenengildo Ventura Hernandez is the grandfather of Douglas Mauricio Ventura (left) and Walberto Jose Ventura Rios (right), both children are orphans, their parents both died of AIDS.
Photograph by Pep Bonet / Noor.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Archana Bhauru Kamble - “I was completely shocked when I saw my blood report was positive after my husband died, but my in-laws and neighbors provided me great support to overcome the mental trauma at that time. Now I work in a Public Health Center in my village to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS. Today I always say to the people; look at me, how happily I am living and taking care of my two children, I never feel sad about being HIV positive. I think many people living with HIV are still not free from the social stigma in our society and it is our duty to fight against the virus as well as the discrimination”.
Photograph by Nilayan Dutta / Drik.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Akshay, aged seven and eight year old Vikas went to live with their grandparents, uncle and aunts in 2003 when their father died. Their mother abandoned them when their father died.
Photograph by Nilayan Dutta / Drik.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Oscar David Hernandez 'La Morelia' is a transsexual commercial sex worker.
When she was nine years old she was kicked out of her family house because of being gay and since then she is working in the streets of San Pedro Sula. She is HIV positive and under (ART) Anti Retroviral Therapy. Morelia has suffered multiple abuses since she started working as a comercial sex worker at the age of 9. She has been shot seven times, beaten by the police, injured by knife, assaulted, and run over by a car.
Photograph by Pep Bonet / Noor.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
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If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Matolo Industrial School Anti-Aids Club. Football will be followed by condom and safe sex workshops.
Photograph by Gideon Mendel / Corbis.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Sunita Shivaji Mane - “I have been living being a HIV positive form the last eight years. My husbands status was known before our marriage but they did not tell me. After my husband died I had to look after my children all on my own. My 8 years old daughter is also positive but my elder son is not. I live in my ancestral home and work in a government project where I earn 5KG of wheat and Rs.20 as a daily wage. I also visit my in-law’s place every 15 days to look after the land and farming, which I inherited as my husband’s share from their family. I want to tell the new generation to please test your blood before marriage and stop spreading the virus to innocents like me”.
Photograph by Nilayan Dutta / Drik.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
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Srey Our, called 'Ladyboy' - "I always wanted to be a girl. Even when I was tiny I played with other girls and grew my hair long. I left home when I was 17 to become the housemaid for a family where I lived for 10 years. My chance came to sing with a band and I never looked back. It was the best time - many boyfriends, lots of fun and no one knew anything about AIDS. We never had any reason to use condoms..
"Now many of us have become sick; there's no one else to look after us as most of our friends have died. Sure, we feel isolated, but we always have been isolated by Cambodian society..
"Since catching AIDS I'm afraid to have sex and I'm too tired; I sleep a lot or listen to records at home. Many gay people in Cambodia thought that HIV infection only comes from men sleeping with women. Everyone should know that men with men can infect the same way!".
Photograph by Barry Lewis / Corbis.
All photographs have been commissioned by Positive Lives and are shown here with full agreement of the photographer. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
If you are interested in commissioning an exhibition or community programme featuring Positive Lives, contact Mathew Birch at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance mbirch@aidsalliance.org
Please quote the following image reference number if you wish to use or include this image.
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