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  • Child at a crËche in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day, on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Mama Ester playing with two of the children at her crËche in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day, on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Child at a crËche in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day, on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • View of Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • View of Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Working with clay at a non governmental centre aimed at proving revenues for the people living in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2005, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Working with clay at a non governmental centre aimed at proving revenues for the people living in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2005, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Nurse applying ear disinfectant to a young girl at the Thembacare HIV hospice in Athlone, Cape Town , on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Christian volunteer talking to a young child affected by HIV/AIDS in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • School children during a lesson at the Tereo Mission School in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Children at a crèche in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, where over a million people live under the poverty line of US $1 a day, on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Nozuko, HIV+ woman living with her son Thulani, 5, in the township of Philippe, an impoverished area of Cape Town, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005. She is in front of the home during a visit by the Thembacare home-based care team to Thulani. Thembacare is a NGO working in the field of HIV+ children. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Thulani, 5 years old, HIV positive child living in Philippe township, Cape Town, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005. He is living with the mother and relatives in a small shack. He has no father. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Bulelwa, HIV+ woman living in the impoverished area of Langa, portrayed with Mxolisi, 2 years, her HIV+ child, and her new-born baby which will have to wait to be tested until 6 weeks after pregnancy, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. She was taking Nevirapine, sponsored by private donors, which could cut the chances of contracting the virus of about two thirds. ARVs are distributed in South Africa by the Government to around 10%, if not less, of the people in urgent need. Private donors cannot cope with the large demand without a strong governmental hand. Free or affordably antiretrovirals for the poor everywhere in the world are an important step that should be taken by the International Community. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Mxolisi, 2 yeras, HIV positive child living in Langa township, an impoverished area of Cape Town, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Zukiswa (middle), 8 year old girl, HIV+, living in Philippe East, part of the bigger Philippe township, an impoverished area of Cape Town, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005. Now at home alone with two friends. After having her CD4 count at 66 (200 is the minimum set before being eligible for ARV treatment) she went on an ARVs regime and she is now better. Her mum, affected by TB and HIV, cares for her. She has a grant from the government of 740 Rends a months (about £ 70) that are not enough; she has to work and travel most times, leaving Zukiswa alone at home. She is strong and is doing her best to grow her child but the help is not enough. She struggles and is sick herself. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • On the outskirts of Khayelitsha township people are getting busy on the road, on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. A view of Table Mount and Lion's Head in the background during a marvellous end-of-winter morning in Cape Town. In Khayelitsha around a 800.000 people live in poverty, are subject to high levels of unemployment, gangsterism, abuse and above all the spread of HIV, emphasised by poverty, lack of knowledge and education, and scarce resources. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Zanoxolo, 9 year old HIV+, living in the large township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005. He lives with the mum, herself HIV+ and 2 brothers. After having almost died a year ago he successfully started to get better under an ARV drugs regime. He will have to do it for the rest of his life, without losing a day. If the therapy is interrupted now, the virus would soon develop in a new stronger form for which a more expensive second line treatment is required, and so on and on. Here allegedly around a 800.000 people live in extreme poverty, are subject to high levels of unemployment, gangsterism, abuse and above all the spread of HIV, emphasised by poverty, lack of knowledge and education, and scarce resources. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Sinethembe, 9 years old, living in the huge township of Khayelitsha, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2005. After being abused by the uncle he contacted HIV. He cares for his two siblings of 3 and 5 years when their mum works for 120 Rends per week (about £ 1). Sinethembe will start school next year, at the age of 10. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Nobuhle, 21 years old, in her house during a home-based care visit to Philippe East, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005. She has a son of 3,Zolani, also HIV+, on ARVs treatment through a private funding. She works for as little as 200 rends a week, and also care of her sick son. When we arrived she had finished the drugs and could not go to the hospital, she had no money to come back. This could have hampered the treatment and possibly reinforced the virus in both. Taking ARVs is everyday, forever, that is why they should be freed from patents and businesses and made universal. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Fundile, 30 years old, HIV+ preying the Lord in her home, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005.. She is mother of Kunnele, 2, also HIV+. Faith is particularly strong in suffering people as in such poor condition believing is sometimes the only source of strength left. Funnile and Kunnele live in Philippe, one of the large impoverished townships of Cape Town. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Children on the streets of Langa township, an impoverished area of Cape Town, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. Poverty and AIDS are collaborating in the creation of millions of orphans throughout the whole of Africa. Many of them will end up committing crimes, prostituting or living on the street. Numerous organisation provides now help for street children, but without an integral and reliable governmental response to the crises, it can't be solved. International donors should provide help targeted at developing poor areas and employment, in unison with fighting HIV/AIDS and carrying on education programmes.A greater distribution of ARVs and poverty alleviation would also enhance to chances of the parents to educate and love their children. Living with HIV means also not dying prematurely, leaving young children where they were struggling to survive. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Mama Ester in her crËche in Mfuleni township, Cape Town, on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. Here women from the community leaves their children for a little charge, only to come back after work to take them home. She is also part of the community, and gives her best to help in this difficult situation, working with overcrowded facilities and little room or material for the kids. She is also in the process of adopting a child, 2 and a half year old Anele, HIV+. Adoption are not an easy task for foreigners as the government favours the children to keep living and being sustained in their communities for traditional reasons. Mama Easter will be soon a foster-mum, someone caring and being responsible for one of the millions orphans of Africa. She wants to love him and try to give him a better future. Many of the children in the townships will not go to school on time for their age. Education plays an important role for stopping the cycle of poverty and AIDS, and to help a country to develop in every strata of society. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Anele, 2 and a half year old boy, HIV+, on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. He is about to be adopted by Mama Ester, a woman running a crèche in Mfuleni township in Cape Town. Adoption are not an easy task for foreigners as the government favours the children to keep living and being sustained in their communities for traditional or inexplicable reasons. The process is as well in itself very slow. Mama Easter will be soon a foster-mum, someone caring and being responsible for one of the millions orphans of Africa. She wants to love him and try to give him a better future. Many of the children in the townships will not go to school on time for their age. Education plays an important role for stopping the cycle of poverty and AIDS, and to help a country to develop in every strata of society. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • View from a window of Mama Ester crËche in the township of Mfuleni, Cape Town, on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. Mama Ester is poorly resourced, the money she get from the community and from the government are little ,and she has to recur to private donors as well. There is not much here to develop the skills of a child pedagogically, because of the lack of funding and development towards these impoverished areas. Many of the children in the townships will not go to school on time for their age. Education plays an important role for stopping the cycle of poverty and AIDS, and to help a country to develop in every strata of society. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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