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HIV test

HIV test result in hand. At an HIV/Aids clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi

Man from Malawi, Africa

Portrait of hope, Lilongwe

This young mother is attending a self-help centre for people with HIV/AIds, in Lilongwe, Malawi, where the group gives counselling, testing, education on diet and meets daily to help out with each others needs. They have a communal kitchen. Noone at the centre has enough money for ARVs. See her close up here.

young woman Malawi

young man in Malawi

Love in a time of HIV

In an HIV clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi, this couple asked to have their photo taken. People at this clinic cannot afford ARVs.

young mother with child on back

This young mother and her child are attending a self-help centre for people with HIV/AIds, in Lilongwe, Malawi, where the group gives counselling, testing, education on diet and meets daily to help out with each others needs. They have a communal kitchen. Noone at the centre has enough money for ARVs.

portrait of HIV

friends

portrait of a father in Malawi

HIV/Aids in Malawi

teacher

Margaret, a mother and teacher, is attending a self-help centre for people with HIV/AIds, in Lilongwe, Malawi, where the group gives counselling, testing, education on diet and meets daily to help out with each others needs. They have a communal kitchen. Noone at the centre has enough money for ARVs.

Positive beauty

An HIV positive african beauty. This young woman was bursting with fun and life.

boy in the sugar mill at Río Sapo

A boy in the sugar mill at Río Sapo, he has a rope for the bulls that turn the mill and behind him you can see a cart with simple wooden wheels. The artesanal method for producing raw sugar is gradually disappearing as sugar is produced more in large industrial mills called 'ingenios'. There are still small-scale producers dotted around Central America using technology that hasn't changed for hundreds of years.

Bagasso

bagasso, crushed sugar cane, is piled up to be used for animal feed. El Salvador.

wrapping sugar

wrapping raw sugar, or dulce de panela, in corn husks. El Salvador

dulce de panela envuelto

wrapped raw sugar

Corn husks

tusa, or corn husks for wrapping raw sugar

Boy in the sugar mill

Near Río Sapo, Arambala, El Salvador. The boiler is covered in 'tile' or fine soot

dulce de panela

sugar straight out of the wooden moulds. El Salvador.

Testing the puzunga, El Salvador

testing the puzunga

Puzunga is the nutritious green froth that comes off the boiling sugar juice. You can't get puzunga anywhere in the world except a sugar mill. You can scoop a bit out with a strip of bagasso, crushed cane, that's what this man is doing.

Boiling sugar, El Salvador

boiling sugar

pouring boiling sugar from one couldron into another as it reaches a certain viscosity

el trapiche, the sugar mill

el trapiche

A Trapiche, or sugar mill, near Villa Guadalupe on the Panamerican highway in El Salvador

Raw sugar cane

Caña de azucar

Delivery man, San Salvador

The delivery man waits for the papers to come off the press. The Diario Co-Latino is the only independent newspaper in El Salvador and has survived two attempts by arson to close it down.

Pick up line, El Salvador

recogiendo periodicos

A worker collects the Co-Latino fresh off the cutter and folder. Employees at the Co-Latino receive lower wages than their counterparts in other newspapers, a measure of their committment to a free and independent press in El Salvador.

Hot off the press, El Salvador

salen

Workers manually stack newspapers as freshly printed paper runs into the cutter and folder. The Co-Latino press is one of the oldest operating newspaper presses in the world.

Colour rollers, El Salvador

tintas

The huge printing press has been refurbished after each deliberate attempt to silence the press. It also undergoes regular ingenious adjustments. Each module on the press was designed to print one ink only, here you can see a creative adjustment by the engineers allow red and yellow inks to be printed together as part of a full colour process. The floor supervisor checks a paper coming off the press in the background.

the biggest camera in the world, El Salvador

the biggest camera in the world

Calibrating the huge camera for photography of the layed-out newspaper

Camera-ready, El Salvador

alistando trabajo para camera

Bringing camera-ready work towards the camera at the Diario Co-Latino, San Salvador. The operator wears a mask in the camera area because of the toxic chemicals used in the developing of the film from the camera.

Light table, El Salvador

mesa de luz

Working on the light table for layout of the Co-Latino newspaper, a co-operative and independent newspaper that has been burned down twice.