Aids in Africa
Gideon Mendel has been documenting the impact of HIV/Aids in Africa for more than 12 years, working in 10 different countries to show the many ways the disease has devastated the lives of millions of ordinary people
Gideon Mendel's best photograph: a mother carries her HIV-infected son
‘Joseph had been sick for 10 years. He said he liked listening to the radio, friends would pass by, his life was rich. He died a few months later’
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Background: HIV/Aids in Uganda
To mark World Aids Day, we look at how Uganda, which has been hailed as an African success story for its rapid response to the HIV epidemic, is responding to rising infection rates
