Artworks explore life with HIV
Babalwa Cekiso is a HIV positive mother, a member of the 'Bambanani' women's group and project manager of the University of Cape Town's Memory Box Outreach Project. This month the project launched a book, 'Long Life... Positive Stories', which documents, in works of body art and text, the lives of the 13 women of Bambanani. Babalwa explains that the Memory Box project was inspired by a similar initiative in Uganda and that it helps HIV positive people to disclose their status as well as explain what it is like to live with HIV.
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