Positive Lives is a unique project that
photographs and documents the impact of the global HIV & AIDS epidemic.
Since its beginnings in the UK in 1993, the exhibition has portrayed the
tremendous courage of people living with HIV & AIDS, and those who care
for them, from different communities around the world.
Positive Lives offers extraordinary
insights into the lives of individuals, families and communities who are
affected by HIV & AIDS, reflecting the issues and emotions which confront
them in the daily reality of living or working with the disease. Issues of
confidentiality, fear, prejudice, exclusion and survival, through to care,
support, compassion, trust and openness are all explored. The texts
accompanying the photographs are all based on the personal stories of
individuals.
Positive Lives is a collaboration between
a number of organisations, including the UK HIV charity, Terrence Higgins
Trust (THT), and, more recently, Concern Worldwide.
Concern Worldwide is an overseas relief
and development agency that works with the world's poorest people to
overcome poverty. Concern has been at the forefront of community responses
to HIV & AIDS and the fight for access to treatment since 1987. Concern
now supports over 25 HIV & AIDS projects in fifteen countries around the
world, working in close partnership with local organisations.
Concern commissioned new photographic work
in Rwanda in November 2005, where it is working with the Rwandan Ministry
of Health to implement a government sponsored initiative for voluntary
counselling and testing. Some of the images from Rwanda can be seen in
this exhibition.
Positive Lives is dedicated to those
living with the effects of HIV & AIDS, those who have lost their lives and
those who love them.
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