Ncedeka, who hails from Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape is living with the HIV virus but is not letting it stand in the way of her living her life and enjoying being alive. Ncedeka is one of the thirteen women and men who were part of the Body Map initiative that drew its [...]
BACKGROUND - LONG LIFE
In 2002, only 25,000 of the 4.7 million people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa had access to life-saving medications. Six hundred people were dying of AIDS every day.
In 2002, the Memory Box Project at the University of Cape Town began to run Memory Box workshops in Khayelitsha. “Memory work” [...]
This book shines a light behind the grim statistics to illuminate the human face of HIV/AIDS in Cape Town’s largest township. Thirteen remarkable women step out of the shadows to tell their personal stories, in words, paintings and photographs, with frankness and humour. Woven between these thirteen tales is the tireless struggle of the health [...]
The Body Maps are an extraordinary series of life-sized mixed-media images created by the women of the Memory Box Project, a community outreach programme conceived by the University of Cape Town in response to the growing number of South Africans living with HIV and AIDS. Initially, the project aimed at preparing the participants for death [...]
The Body Maps are artworks which were created by a group of women, The Bambanani Women’s Group, based in Cape Town, South Africa. The Bambanani Women were invited to tell their stories through a community outreach program initiated by the AIDS and Society Research Unit of the University of Cape Town (ASRU) and Médecins Sans [...]
When I look at this picture I can see what I am and what I’m not and what I believe in and what I don’t.
Now see this handprint . See the one finger on my left hand is shorter? When I was 13, in my culture we cut the fingers, especially the ladies so they [...]
There is no more friendship between my stepfather and me. He wrote a letter to my teachers at school. It said I must leave school because he is not going to pay for my school fees because I have got a boyfriend now. I asked my boyfriend for money. He gave me money because he [...]
This is me, Thobani. I was the only man in the group. I would have liked to continue with this body map and this work but I had to leave because I got more involved in the Treatment Action Campaign. I have a vegetable stall and I have to wake up every morning at 3 [...]
In this picture I have a scar, a dent, on my head, at my back and on my two arms. I was in the car accident between Piketberg and Mooreesburg on the N7.
I have written ‘ALWAYS BE PREPARED’ on my body map. It is my girl guides slogan and means you must be prepared for [...]
If you hear the president saying something you think it’s the truth. But here in South Africa the president is not always telling the truth. Jussis, it’s bad.
After I started going to MSF, doctors without borders, I told both my parents I am HIV positive. My mother said, “Why do all my children have to [...]
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