Images of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Children run past a mural painting of an Aids ribbon at a school in Khutsong Township, 74 km (46 miles) west of JohannesburgAugust 22, 2011. (Reuters)

Peter Mokaba, a fiery ANC politician, died in 2002 of complications from AIDS, which he officially denied he had. His controversial views included denying the existence of HIV and describing anti-retroviral medications for AIDS as “poison”.

FromPep Bonet’s Photoessay

“South Africa—HIV&AIDS”March 2005

The cremated remains of babies who died of AIDS at the Cotlands hospice—now closed for lack of critically ill babies—are entombed in a memorial wall in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Melanie Scott Freeman/Christian Science Monitor

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A boy receives medication at a residential care centre for destitute HIV-

positive mothers and their children in South Africa.

Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

Jonathan Torgovnik—Reportage by Getty Images for TIME

from the LightBox Photo Essay

Generation of Orphans: South Africa’s Children of AIDS

Monday, November 26, 2012

Maria Mokoena, 62, with her seven orphan grandchildren.

Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa; October 2012.

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