Fighting Stigma and Finding Compassion on World AIDS Day To see...

Fighting Stigma and Finding Compassion on World AIDS Day

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Filmmaker and photographer Gabrielle Menezes (@the_instants) followed Wandjo Kone (pictured), a community health worker in Ivory Coast, as she trudged through a village, visiting pregnant women and girls with HIV. “I think the girls in those situations really need a friend and someone supportive and someone who can explain all of these things to them — to make them feel like they’re a little bit in control of their lives and the health of the baby,” says Gabrielle, who grew up in Zimbabwe and now lives in London. “Wandjo is so good at doing that.”

For years, Gabrielle worked as a journalist but is now fascinated by new ways of storytelling. “When I take Polaroids, I no longer have my journalistic hat on. They’re not meant to be documentary images for me,” she says. “They’re meant to be very personal images. They’re meant to be something that really moves people, and not necessarily objectively.” #WorldAIDSDay

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