HIV/AIDS

Fighting HIV/AIDS With Music, Theater In Honduras

Jens Erik Gould — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:09:32 +0000

In the village of Corozal in Honduras, men ready boats for fishing excursions and boys play soccer on a beach lined with thatched huts.

On a sandy lot next to the town's main street, two teenage boys begin playing drums while women sing. For centuries, this has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has an additional purpose: to prevent HIV.

As people arrive to hear the drumming, the musicians become actors in a play.

Proposed World AIDS Museum In Search Of A Home In Wilton Manors

Tricia Woolfenden — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:00:00 +0000

The World AIDS Museum is in search of a permanent home and it's hoping to set up shop in the Fort Lauderdale area. Organizers have their eye specifically on Wilton Manors, a neighborhood with an active LGBT community.

A Poetic Journey After The Quake: HIV/AIDs In Haiti

Patricia Sagastume — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000

The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti demolished the country's health care system along with everything else.

But from the ruins came Voices of Haiti -- an odyssey in verse that grew out of a commission from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to document HIV/AIDS after the quake. The multimedia project, which came to the University of Miami this year, blends Haitian voices to conjure up images of strength, hope and faith.