Positive Lives: Positive Responses to HIV, the
internationally renowned collection of photographic essays featuring
the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS, opens in O'Rahilly Building,
UCC on Thursday 6 April at 6pm and will run until Friday, 19 May.
Positive Lives aims to humanise the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
challenge myths and reduce stigmatisation and discrimination. Since it
began in 1993, the exhibition has toured in the USA, Europe, Asia,
Australia and Africa. It has been seen by more than four million
people. It portrays the tremendous courage and spirit of people living
with HIV/AIDS and those that care for them from different communities
around the world.
The project has received the acclamation of world leaders, aid
organisations, community organisations and people who have been
affected by the epidemic. The exhibition was endorsed by UN General
Secretary Kofi Annan at the special session of the UN General Assembly
on HIV/AIDS in 2001.
The exhibition includes original Irish photographs by Alan O'Connor.
More than 40 million people now live with HIV/AIDS, 93 per cent of them
in developing countries. The majority of those infected are women.
Millions are denied drugs for treatment. Every year, two million people
die of AIDS-related illnesses and five million people are infected.
More than 13 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS; by
2010 this figure is expected to have risen to 25 million.
Positive Lives is a joint presentation of Terrence Higgins Trust
(THT), ActionAid International and professional documentary
photographers from around the world.
The exhibition is brought to Cork by ActionAid Ireland, in association
with The Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods and the Lewis Glucksman
Gallery, UCC.
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm; Sunday 10am-3pm. Admission free. Closed for Easter 14-17 April. (Closed 1 May).
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