World AIDS Day: Jo Ann Santangelo's Portraits of People Living with HIV and AIDS

Austin Faces AIDS: Portraits of People Living with HIV and AIDS is an intimate multimedia project by Jo Ann Santangelo helping to increase HIV and AIDS awareness and reduce stigma by putting a face to the statistics and the disease. There are an estimated 33 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. 490,696 people are living with the disease in America.

Guy (above) tested positive for HIV in 1986 while living here in Denver.

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