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3:09 pm
Mon April 1, 2013

Fighting HIV/AIDS With Music, Theater In Honduras

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Women meet during a support group for those who have HIV and their friends and family on Jan. 17 in Triunfo de la Cruz. These kinds of support groups are an important part of making people feel comfortable with their diagnosis and seeking treatment.
Credit David Rochkind / Pulitzer Center
Daily life on the streets of a Garifuna community Jan. 25 in Corozal, Honduras. Various factors have contributed to a high HIV rate among the Garifuna, including poverty and migration.
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Santos Anael Martinez cooks food in his home Jan. 13 in Sambo Creek. Santos,a fisherman, is HIV-positive; his wife is a community health worker who visits people living with HIV.
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A view of a cemetery in Sambo Creek. Before medicines were made widely available in the early 2000s, scores of people in the Garifuna community died from AIDS. According to local NGOs, the death rate has dropped dramatically.
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Women meet during a support group for those who have HIV and their friends and family on Jan. 17 in Triunfo de la Cruz. These kinds of support groups are an important part of making people feel comfortable with their diagnosis and seeking treatment.
Credit David Rochkind / Pulitzer Center
Anatolia Ramirez waits outside the home of one of the HIV-positive women she visits in Sambo Creek. Ramirez is a community health worker who visits people with HIV in order to check up on them, and to offer assistance and support.
Credit David Rochkind / Pulitzer Center
Francisca Guity, who is HIV-postive, sits with her child in her home Jan. 20 in Sambo Creek.
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Nolvia Cruz waits to be seen at an HIV/AIDS health clinic on Jan. 25 in La Ceiba. Nolvia is open about her diagnosis, but many people are afraid to go to the clinic for fear that someone they know will see them and gossip about their HIV status.
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A community theater group performs at a festival Jan. 25 in Corozal. The theater group uses traditional Garifuna music and culture in its productions to help teach about HIV prevention and stigma.
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Carmen Suyapa (right) receives a visit from Anatolia Ramirez on Jan. 21 in La Ceiba, Honduras. Carmen felt so rejected by her family after she was diagnosed with HIV that she briefly considered committing suicide.
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By Jens Erik Gould

Originally published on Fri March 29, 2013 11:14 am

In the village of Corozal in Honduras, men ready boats for fishing excursions and boys play soccer on a beach lined with thatched huts.

On a sandy lot next to the town's main street, two teenage boys begin playing drums while women sing. For centuries, this has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has an additional purpose: to prevent HIV.

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World AIDS Museum Florida
6:00 pm
Mon February 4, 2013

Proposed World AIDS Museum In Search Of A Home In Wilton Manors

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AIDS quilts were among the first recognizable forms of public memorial to victims of the disease.
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By Tricia Woolfenden

The World AIDS Museum is in search of a permanent home and it's hoping to set up shop in the Fort Lauderdale area. Organizers have their eye specifically on Wilton Manors, a neighborhood with an active LGBT community.   

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AIDS In Haiti
7:00 am
Tue January 15, 2013

A Poetic Journey After The Quake: HIV/AIDs In Haiti

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Credit Photos by Andre Lambertson, Haiti, 2010.
Alex, 17, lives in the municipality of Carrefour.
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Joel, the pastor whose hands are seen at right, visiting a sick young woman and her child in Carrefour. Despite fatigue and poverty, his faith keeps him resilient.
Credit Andre Lambertson, Haiti. 2010
Malia Jean, dressing for church, formed an agency for women infected and affected by H.I.V. In the process, she passed on the help that she had been given.
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  • Reporter Patricia Sagastume spoke with poet Kwame Dawes about one specific love story within Voices of Haiti.

The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti demolished the country's health care system along with everything else.

But from the ruins came Voices of Haiti -- an odyssey in verse that grew out of a commission from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to document HIV/AIDS after the quake. The multimedia project, which came to the University of Miami this year, blends Haitian voices to conjure up images of strength, hope and faith.

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