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efforts to encourage people to be tested, disclose their status, prevent transmission of the virus, and access treatment unless there is a change of the approach.
On average, every minute, a child dies of Aids-related illnesses and another child becomes infected with HIV. This year’s World Aids Day will focus on making this startling statistic a thing of the past. The global theme is “Getting to Zero: Zero new infections, zero discrimination, zero Aids-related deaths”.
When the family and community around and individual are supportive, understanding and caring, people are more likely to protect themselves and others from transmission of the virus and access to treatment unless there is a change of approach.
Over the last few months children and young people in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Uganda have been talking about what they do for their community and what their community does for them. They then went out and took photos that would tell others about the role they play in their home and community and about the kind of support they receive. Here is selection of the photographs they took.
They give us a rich and at times intimate insight into how children perceive themselves in relation to their families and their community. – REPSSI/RIATT/ESA.
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