Saturday, December 2, 2017

'Nothing Without Us': Doc Highlights Heroism of Women Fighting HIV/AIDS

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by Vee Wright

When the HIV/AIDS test the Rev. Joyce Turner Keller administers to a young woman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana comes back negative, one breathes a huge sigh of relief and she does too.

Thousands of miles away in Lagos, Nigeria, Daisy Uwakwe, an adolescent who has been infected with HIV since birth, is becoming active in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS among her peers. Daisy attends an HIV youth camp run by Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA), an NGO founded by Morolake Odetoyinbo.

As people unite to raise awareness of HIV on World AIDS Day, annually observed on Dec. 1, Keller and Odetoyinbo, are on a mission. They are among several women living with HIV/AIDS featured in a new documentary "Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS." The 68-minute documentary, directed and co-produced by Harriet Hirshorn, made its North American premiere at "DOC NYC” in November.

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Source: NBC News 

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