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Children affected by HIV/AIDS in Cape Town(35 images)
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  • Children at the Sijongephambili creche, in the impoverished area of Lwandle township, Somerset West, Western Cape, SA, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. Here women from the community leaves their children for a little charge, only to come back after work to take them home. The carers, being also part of the community, do their best to help in this difficult situation, working with overcrowded facilities and little room or material for the kids. Many of the children 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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  • Axole, 15, is but one of millions of neglected children coming from poor families that could not or not wanted to take care of him, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2005. Young kids end up living on the street, prostituting or entering criminal gangs. They have never experienced love nor discipline and they are often very difficult kids to deal with. It is important to give them something to believe in, to teach them that they are important, and work on their self-esteem, apart on their education and training skills. These kids has to be helped to vision a better future, and the School of Hope, in Athlone, Cape Town, is trying give it a big hand. A better educational system is essential to stand poverty and to fight back, through employment and skills creation. Psycho-social support is also important for the state of mind of the kid that need to feel loved and important to someone. School of Hope counts about 50 students from impoverished area that have been rejected or expelled by most school and are largely overage for their qualifications. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Newspaper seller at a junction in central Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. People sells the most disparate goods at junctions and traffic lights, from vegetables to handcrafts. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Woman walking across the Guguletu cemetery, just off Guguletu township of Cape Town, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Many of the people who died of AIDS in the nearby area are buried here. South Africa is also claiming to have no land left for the dead and many people are in fact buried on top of others. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • View of the enormous Guguletu cemetery, just off Guguletu township of Cape Town, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2005.. Many of the people who died of AIDS in the nearby area are buried here. South Africa is also claiming to have no land left for the dead and many people are in fact buried on top of others. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Nonceba, 3 years old HIV+ child, in her bed at Thembacare HIV+ children's hospice in Athlone, run by Thembalitsha (www.thembalitsha.org.za), a local faith-based organisation working in the field of HIV/AIDS, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. She had no clinic improvement at home, her dad disappeared, as it regularly happens and the mother is left on her own in Philippe, a large township in Cape Town. Nonceba also has chronic anaemia, which further burdens her way to effectively fight HIV/AIDS. Thembacare has 18 beds at their disposal and was generally home of very sick children that would have eventually died. Thanks to the newly developed ARV drugs for children and private funding, Thembacare can now lengthens the life of these babies and give them the assistance and love very much needed in their growth. ARVs will have to be taken for the rest of their life for them to survive, work and help others. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Kholiswa, 1 and a half year old, HIV+ child in her bad at Thembacare, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Her mother is also HIV+ and in need of second line treatment for Tuberculosis. Thembacare, a HIV+ children hospice in Athlone run by Thembalitsha (www.thembalitsha.org.za), a local faith-based organisation working in the field of HIV/AIDS, is also partially looking after the mother, in the intent of helping the child also through family care. Thembacare has 18 beds at their disposal and was generally home of very sick children that would have eventually died. Thanks to the newly developed ARV drugs for children and private funding, Thembacare can now lengthens the life of these babies and give them the assistance and love very much needed in their growth. ARVs will have to be taken for the rest of their life for them to survive, work and help others. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Sonja, a health worker is compiling some forms at Thembacare HIV+ children's hospice in Athlone, run by Thembalitsha (www.thembalitsha.org.za), a local faith-based organisation working in the field of HIV/AIDS, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Thembacare has 18 beds at their disposal and was generally home of very sick children that would have eventually died. Thanks to the newly developed ARV drugs for children and private funding, Thembacare can now lengthens the life of these babies and give them the assistance and love very much needed in their growth. ARVs will have to be taken for the rest of their life for them to survive, work and help others. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Masonwabe, 4 years old, in a clinic of Cape Town, on Monday, Aug. 22, 2005. He is HIV+ and also has cerebral palsy, a brain disorded that makes him physically and mentally disabled. He is living in Thembacare since two years, since the mother, after having been abandoned by her man and having her shack burned down by a fire that broke out in Philippe township, could no longer care for him at the moment. Her other baby has died in the fire. Thembacare is a HIV+ children hospice in Athlone, run by Thembalitsha (www.thembalitsha.org.za), a local faith-based organisation working in the field of HIV/AIDS. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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  • Panoramic view of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, on Saturday, Aug 8, 2005. 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. HIV and poverty complement each other, poverty is a great ground for HIV to spread, but the virus also contributes in the creation of poverty itself, the collapse of family households, killing the workforce in the most producing years and therefore leaving behind an unimaginable series of orphans, lacking in education and means themselves, enforcing the cycle. Being able to transform HIV globally, from a death sentence, to a controllable disease, using ARVs, would prolong the life of those affected, give them a chance to work and raise up their children so to prevent the spread of the virus itself as well. **ITALY OUT** By photographer Alex Masi
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