Families Coping with AIDs


  • Photographer
    Kathleen Gerber
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    Nov 2013

In a country in which 27% of the adult population has died of AIDs the results leaves more than a half a million children orphaned. This series of photos shows both family and non-family members joining together to coexist while dealing with this heinous illness. This extended family system assists mothers with AIDs in the caring and rearing of their children along with grandmothers and aunts taking on the responsibility after loved ones have been lost. I recently visited this village with a representative from Reencontroo in Maputo. During our visit we saw the full range: happy children, mothers doing well with their meds contrasting with another who had been taken to the hospital, suffering uncles, etc. The extended families provide a safety net for the children should the unthinkable happen. Maputo, Mozambique

Story

In a country in which 27% of the adult population has died of AIDs the results leaves more than a half a million children orphaned. This series of photos shows both family and non-family members joining together to coexist while dealing with this heinous illness. This extended family system assists mothers with AIDs in the caring and rearing of their children along with grandmothers and aunts taking on the responsibility after loved ones have been lost. I recently visited this village with a representative from Reencontroo in Maputo. During our visit we saw the full range: happy children, mothers doing well with their meds contrasting with another who had been taken to the hospital, suffering uncles, etc. The extended families provide a safety net for the children should the unthinkable happen. Maputo, Mozambique

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