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‘Interconnected Lives’: PEPFAR/PAS photo exhibit looks at HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire

With $120 million to support the fight against HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire this year, PEPFAR – the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – has the numbers to prove we are making a difference.

Photographer Nadia Bettega went looking for something beyond the numbers.

On Monday, July 28, PEPFAR and the Embassy Public Affairs Office will unveil the faces of HIV she found at hospitals and clinics, at community social centers, in support groups, at a clinic for sex workers, in local organizations that help vulnerable children, at a mosque, in private homes in cities and villages from Abobo to Ouangolodougou.

Join U.S. Ambassador Wanda L. Nesbitt for the opening of “Interconnected Lives: A Portrait of HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire” at 4:30 p.m. in the atrium of the U.S. Embassy. The exhibit, organized and supported by PEPFAR Côte d’Ivoire and the Embassy’s Public Affairs Section, will remain on view through August.

For more information about PEPFAR in Côte d’Ivoire, please visit http://abidjan.usembassy.gov/pepfar.html.