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The Mount - I was diagnosed HIV positive in 1985, I wasn't an intravenous drug user, I didn't have sex with men, I'd just recently left my wife and had picked up with another woman for about a year. I ignored the fact that I was positive and didn't even think about it - I just wasn't HIV positive as far as I was concerned. After about two years I found myself in prison. .
My name on the notice board had big red flashes all over it; my folder in the office had yellow stickers on saying Danger - Contamination. I was really depressed at being locked up anyway and I was even more depressed because of the situation..
Being HIV positive is worse than being a sex offender. The screws don't publicise the fact that you're a sex offender.
Photograph by Mike Abrahams.
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Francine, 34 and a neighbour’s child, Kibaye sector, Rwahambi village. Francine tested positive for HIV in Jan 2005... "My first husband died in 1994 during the Genocide. I think I got infected from my second husband - because after my first husband died, I had to look for another. I did marry him ... but now he is in Tanzania (it is likely that he fled as a genocide suspect). I cannot lose hope and I cannot be angry with my husband for all this ".
Photograph by Stuart Freedman / Panos.
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West Lancs Positive Living celebrated their award for best small social enterprise given by the Selnet Enterprise In Society Awards 2011, by having a meal at the Bull and Dog Burscough.
Head nurse goes her round before Dr Deivanayagam visits. He is a stickler for order..
Photograph by Dayanita Singh / NbPictures.
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Positive Lives in Liberia.
For each venue the organising committees set up focal points where visitors could read explanations of the exhibited photographs or ask question of the facilitators from MERCI and Tiyatien Health.
(report and images made available to Positive Lives by UNHCR/UNFPA)
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Positive Lives comes within the remit of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
Looking through the grill at St Marks Place, New York.
Photograph by Paul Reas.
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“The photo is more talkative than the information I have. I feel disturbed but this is the reality around the
world.”- College Student
“When I saw the real photo of PLHA I get shocked because it was first time in my life I saw this, in such an open manner. But it was very good that every positive person get information how to live positively and that the rest of the community members should not discriminate against them. – Chef engineer, Sugar factory Walwa.
“It’s a heart touching experience for me. I think this issue should be discussed with all the students in my school and make them aware with the help of these photo captions.” Teacher in Palus “This photo exhibition will make the youth remain safe and responsible toward their own lives” – NGO leader
IM NIMOL (34) - "I found I was HIV positive last year.. I must have been from my husband. He became very ill and told me that he had been playing around. I got so mad, and then upset and couldn't eat for a week.. What could I do? We have 2 kids, my 7-year-old son who is often sick, and my little 3-year-old daughter who seems well but I am too frightened to take them for the HIV test. What can I do?"
Photograph by Barry Lewis / Corbis.
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"I think I'm the best kind of man - I can live with the male and female side of me, and it doesn't conflict."
Photograph by Barry Lewis / Corbis.
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"I'm going to have to face up to dying, but before that I want to find out how much living I can do."
Photograph by Barry Lewis / Corbis.
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Having lost her son and daughter-in-law to AIDS, 74 years old Tombi Macha cares for her four grandchildren. One of them is HIV positive. She collects leftovers from relatives, to feed the children. These vegetables were her day's accumulation. Her son was a well-known football player, who fell into drug use. 13% of the population is positive in Manipur, initially from needle sharing. "I do not know what sins I committed in my last life that I am paying for now", she said.
Photograph by Dayanita Singh / NbPictures.
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Winston getting ready for a night out.
Photograph by Barry Lewis / Corbis.
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Positive Lives in Liberia.
Over a three-day period, local FM radio stations promoted the Exhibition and activities. Large banners were printed up to advertise the events (these were also used during the street parades) - in the days leading up to opening day loud speakers and public address systems drew public attention to the Exhibitions and event programme.
(report and images made available to Positive Lives by UNHCR/UNFPA)
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'Neang, 22 - "My father died when I was just a year old. My mother married again and everything was fine until I was 14 when my stepfather raped me. I have a strong personality so I went to the judge who fined my stepfather two cows.. He raped me four more times over the next year. At 15, I married a soldier, only to find he had second wife who arrived to fight with me. My husband took me to a brothel and received US$12 from them. I was moved around a lot, over ten brothels in six years, including one in Vietnam. It was fun and exciting at first, but now it's getting more dangerous. I've lost my freedom because whenever I left a brothel I was always sold back. I owe money, but I'm hoping that I can pay all my debts in three months, then I'm stopping. My stepfather has died and at last I feel I can go home to my mother.".
Photograph by Barry Lewis / Corbis.
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Guilhermina Rita Sumburance, deputy leader of Magoanine group of Muleid with her 18 year old daughter Cacilda Jorge Cumbana and her mother Anastacia Anarnaldo.
Photograph by Gideon Mendel / Corbis.
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A sea of trucks congregates on the Hong Kong/Chinese border, dwarfed by the sprawling Shenzhen skyline.
Photograph by Jack Picone.
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Michael Christopher with Sister Sol.
Photograph by Harriet Logan / Gill Turner Agency.
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'A long day of dying' The female medical ward, where all the floor space is taken up by the patients and their guardians.
Photograph by Gideon Mendel / Corbis.
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GMA-10137443
The 200/300 out-patients seen per day get barely 3 min of the doctors time..
Photograph by Dayanita Singh / NbPictures.
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Tomba was an active sportsman until he experimented with drugs, now cared for by his mother.
Photograph by Dayanita Singh / NbPictures.
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DSD-10110595
New York - "We all wanted to go to New York, in 1978 it seemed like the only sensible thing to do. I was twenty and having a ball."
Photograph by Paul Reas.
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Michael Christopher at the playground near his home in Quezon City.
Photograph by Harriet Logan / Gill Turner Agency.
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Some visitors to the Positive Lives exhibition tour in China expressed a wish to have more photos showing how people are dealing with HIV and AIDS in their province/city.
In Tongren over 6,000 people saw the Positive Lives exhibition.
“Photos and stories to show the difficulties of positive people - to show the contrast between with support and without support.”
[Comment on what they would like to see in future exhibitions, made by visitors to the Positive Lives exhibitions in China.]
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Grandmother looking after four grandchildren..This is one of the people I (Eliseu) visit . She has to care for her.four orphaned grandchildren but has very few resources. Her house is falling down and even though she is old she has to work on other people's machambas, as well as her own, in order to earn a little money to send the children to school..
Photograph by Jenny Matthews / Panos.
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Her Imperial Highness, Princess Takamado opens the exhibition at the UN Gallery, Tokyo - September 2003.
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"I think about their future, my wife and sons. I am building a house for them so that they never have to be on the street. I want to set an example among people like me. I want to be strong for my family. It has been five years already; who knows how much longer I have. But I must complete the house, so I work night and day."
Photograph by Dayanita Singh / NbPictures.
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Employees of the Tai Lin hotel participate in Red Cross AIDS awareness seminar...
Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann.
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Kibaye Health Centre .
Assumpta Ntibazinkayo aged 26, receives her unproven HIV result meaning that she must be re-tested.
Photograph by Stuart Freedman / Panos.
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SFA-19643810
Mozambique - Muleid Drama Group.
Photograph by Gideon Mendel / Corbis.
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GMA-10157200
Dr Deivanayagam sees 200-300 out patients per day three times a week.
Photograph by Dayanita Singh / NbPictures.
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DSD-10110634
Positive Lives in Liberia.
HIV/AIDS awareness programmes are being further developed with schools and in other community settings - and the County Health Teams and HIV activists will now continue to reinforce their ongoing and future campaigns with HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination messages.
(report and images made available to Positive Lives by UNHCR/UNFPA)
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Positive Lives comes within the remit of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.
John's Story
Photograph by Paul Lowe.
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Kunming. At Red Cross AIDS seminar hotel attendents learn how to apply condoms using a wooden model.
Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann.
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Winston talks on the phone with a friend.
Photograph by Barry Lewis / Corbis.
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At the Ship's Cabin night club, the Diva performance begins at about two thirty a.m. and is preceded by sex jokes and games which clients are encouraged to join.
Photograph by Shahidul Alam / Drik.
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Dr Deivanayagam examines a HIV positive mother..
Photograph by Dayanita Singh / NbPictures.
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John's Story
Photograph by Paul Lowe.
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Straight Talk Club. Kampala, Uganda.
Susan Atuhura (16) started the Straight Talk Club at the City View High School in Kampala. The club is named after Straight Talk, a newsletter for young people about sexual reproductive health published in Kampala.
"I realised that I did not know as much as I need to know about HIV and AIDS, and when I asked my friends none of them seemed to really know. I decided to form a club where we could learn from one another. My friends joined, and then other students from school. It is now one year old and there are 30 of us, and we meet once a week. As teenagers we need people to guide us and teach us about things that can save our lives, yet many of our parents are too shy to tell us about sex and sexuality and give us the information we need. At the club we teach each other. We talk about everything. I have learnt a lot from my friends. This has given me self confidence, and I can speak my mind. Since the club started there have been no new pregnancies among the students in the school. I think it is really helping a lot".
Susan Atuhura, City View High School
Photograph by Gideon Mendel / Corbis.
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Lynne lives with her father, Joe. He retired at 59, because of ill health, and he misses working. His wife died 12 years ago, while Lynne was in prison. She got heavily into drugs when she was released. She was tested HIV positive in '84. Lynne and Joe look after each other. The budgie, Timmy, was a present she gave him on his 59th birthday.
Photograph by John Sturrock.
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Sacha's Story
Photograph by Paul Lowe.
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PLA-10010016
A man walks from an HIV test at Kibayi Health Centre whilst a health worker develops tests in a locked room.
Photograph by Stuart Freedman / Panos.
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SFA-19643816
Peer education. Bukoba District, Tanzania. The Bukoba homecare team runs peer education programmes as well as providing care for the sick..
"We select people, often school pupils and members of youth groups who are interested and willing to teach others. They are taught about the transmission of HIV and AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases and discuss responsible behaviour including use of condoms, delaying sex and assertiveness in sex. We want to change high risk to low risk behaviour. We also teach them how to live with people who have HIV and to care for AIDS patients, as most people in the region have people who are ill in their family".
Speciosa Rwamaag, Nurse, Bukoba Homecare Team
Photograph by Gideon Mendel / Corbis.
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GMA-10098597
Sylvia is 30, attractive with highlighted gold brown hair and presents a happy disposition.
She knows how important it is to remove HIV from the ghettos of secrecy.
Photograph by Roger Hutchings.
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Sacha's Story - "So we were all at this party in my mates house, you know, her parents were away and all that. Denise kept on saying to me "He really fancies you, he keeps giving you the eye". So we started dancing together, but it felt really cool, like I was in control, he didn't make me feel scared or anything..
He'd gone when I woke up the next day, I tried to tell myself it was a dream. I felt rejected, he could at least have said goodbye. When I began to think about what might happen next, I got really upset, I mean, in my friend's bed. Who knows what he might have..
I wanted to see him again, if only to know that there wasn't a problem with AIDS. I got very upset - I was at breaking point. Thinking about the night before, all that happened and all the problems it caused the next day, I would have been more careful. If only I'd thought about the consequences I wouldn't have done it. I didn't even think about condoms or anything. It all happened too fast."
Photograph by Paul Lowe.
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PLA-10010018
Positive Lives in Liberia.
Representatives from MERLIN invited and encouraged the local community to attend the exhibition and public events.
Guests on the day included UNHCR (Liberia Unit Nation Officer in charge), other UN agencies, HIV actors, UNMIL, the refugee community, secondary school students, local people including People Living with HIV/AIDS and various local and international NGO representatives.
(report and images made available to Positive Lives by UNHCR/UNFPA)
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AIDS education workshop for traditional healers in Bizana South Africa. Correct condom use.
Photograph by Gideon Mendel / Corbis.
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GMA-10101375
Ches Ashram for AIDS orphans. The Community Health Education Centre (CHES) in Madras cares for children who have been orphaned through AIDS.
Photograph by Mike Abrahams.
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MAA-10108752