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AIDS: Doctors without Borders pays tribute to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa
2011-12-21

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF ) has launched a music project, "Positive Generation: Voices for an AIDS-free Future," based on songs created by HIV support groups in Zimbabwe and recorded with Zimbabwean and international artists, including Estelle, Alejandro Sanz, Paula Fernandes, Oliver TUKU Mtukudzi, Karina Pasian, ten Zimbabwean choirs, and many others.

The music aims to raise awareness about the reality of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa by highlighting how people on treatment can still live a 'positive' life. The project also highlights the importance of programs that prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus, and warns of the consequences that current global funding shortfalls for HIV/AIDS programs would have on the lives of thousands of patients.

MSF is using music to raise awareness about the virus in Zimbabwe, to educate patients and their families that they are not alone, to inform them that treatment can stabilize the illness, and to end stigmatization of HIV/AIDS patients. Support group choirs, largely made up of Zimbabweans living with or affected by the virus, offer an open, positive approach to HIV/AIDS education. Their testimonies and songs raise awareness about how to prevent the spread of the disease and encourage people to seek HIV diagnosis and treatment.

"With this project, we want to pay tribute to a generation of people who are living 'positively' with HIV. Their testimonies transmit positive messages and help fight stigmatization. With MSF's operational experience in HIV care since 2000, and the latest progress in HIV science, we know that an AIDS-free generation is possible if effective programs are implemented on the ground. We need to keep fighting to reach this goal," said Mari Carmen Viñoles, head of MSF's mission in Zimbabwe.

Through "Positive Generation," MSF aims to bring attention to the recent progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and to warn of the threats that could stop or even reverse progress. Recent research has shown that early treatment not only saves lives, but also has a significant impact on reducing HIV transmission and preventing new infections.

Zimbabwe, the country with the third highest HIV burden in Southern Africa, where 14 percent of adults ( about one million people ) and 150,000 children are currently living with HIV, has taken ambitious steps to improve HIV/AIDS services. Zimbabwe has seen positive results: currently 63 percent of those in need of antiretroviral therapy ( ART ) are receiving treatment, up from only 5 percent in 2006, and expanded ART coverage has reduced annual AIDS deaths by 42 percent since 2006.

This progress, which could mean a future free from HIV, is threatened by a lack of funding and program closures. Zimbabwe, like many other high prevalence countries, will require additional funding in the coming years, yet AIDS funding is currently being cut back globally, as confirmed by the decision by the board of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to cancel Round 11 funding.

The project "Positive Generation: Voices for an HIV free future," which includes a CD/book, a documentary, and a website, was launched internationally Dec. 1, 2011. The project is an MSF and Casa Limon production, managed and produced by the Spanish artists Alejandro Sanz, Antonio Carmona and Javier Limon, with voluntary contributions from musicians, composers and performers from around the world, such as the Zimbabwean Oliver TUKU Mtukudzi and Chiwoniso Maraire, Juan Luis Guerra ( Santo Domingo ) , Carlos Vives ( Colombia ) , Paula Fernandes ( Brasil ) , Estelle ( UK ) , Ali Amr ( Morocco ) , David Broza ( Israel ) , Karina Pasian ( USA ) , Tino di Geraldo ( France ) , Estrella Morente ( Spain ) , Carminho & Diogo Clemente ( Portugal ) , Andrés Calamaro ( Argentina ) , Iván "Melon" Lewis ( Cuba ) , Miguel Campillo elbicho ( Spain ) and Ariadna Castellanos ( Spain ) .


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