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Caskets sold on the roadside, in Masaka, Southern Uganda, is a common sight because of the HIV/ AIDS pandemic. Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, and around the world live in extreme poverty. They work to meet their basic needs of shelter,…

Before falling ill, Margaret Nampijja, 29, of Kampala, Uganda made her living buying and selling clothes and shoes. She has three daughters and a son, two of her daughters are HIV positive. Bedridden, she has sores in her throat and a rash that…

Kassim Issa, 31, jumped over sewage flowing g down the dirt path in front of his home, in the Kenyan slum he calls home. He traverses these dirt paths selling his bottles of hair products which helps pay for his HIV medication.

Rita Achieng (CQ), 27, spends her days lying in the darkness of her one room shack, in a Kenyan slum. She said she was 'waiting for death to come.' She refused anti-retroviral treatment, and died three weeks later.

Zinhle Mkhize (left), 8, gets on her knees and bags her mother Eunice Mkhize, 49, for food. Families are faced with the difficult choices of feeding their children or educating them.

Ntombikhona Ndaba (left) and Khanysile Ndaba (right), 10, work on their homework while sitting on the floor of their aunt's house. Their parents both died of HIV/AIDS.

After school, uniformed children walk home past Zanele Hlela's home. Only one child in this household has the opportunity to attend school because of the poverty in the area.

Bongani Mzimela (CQ), 16, his family unable to afford school fees he is not able to attend school. He is at home in South Africa, playing ball while other children were in school. He is 16, but only has a second grade education.

Following the morning assembly, students line up and walk single file into their classrooms at the Silwanetshe Primary School in Willowfontein, South Africa. Children are eager for an education in this community. Families view education as a way to…

After school a boy peeks into a window at the Silwanetshe Primary School. The school has tight security including bars on the doors, a 24 hour guard, six-foot fence topped with razor wire, and an electric security system because of the high crime…