Honduras: Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Music and Theater
An Afro-Caribbean community on the Atlantic coast of Central America uses its rich musical tradition to fight an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
An Afro-Caribbean community on the Atlantic coast of Central America uses its rich musical tradition to fight an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
For centuries, drumming has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has found an additional purpose.
Listen to "Sandi Le," the song Garifuna music greats Aurelio Martinez and Rolando "Chichiman" Sosa wrote and recorded with Jens Erik Gould about HIV.
Most American farming relies on gas and fertilizers and yields low wages. Cuba's Organoponico Vivero Alamar, though, relies on nature and ingenuity. And it pays (relatively) well.
Basilia has been living with HIV for 13 years. She tries to balance work and her health, and travels to a health clinic for monthly appointments.
Most Americans have never been to Cuba and may never go, but that’s not because it isn’t feasible.
One for locals and the other for tourists--that's how Cuba's two currencies are often described. But it's more complicated than that.
In Havana, classic antique cars shine brightly in front of decrepit buildings.
Instagram scenes of people living with HIV and the communities where they live.
In Cuba, people talk fast but they embrace outsiders even faster, both figuratively and literally. After all, they’re not in a hurry to do much else.
After studying for two weeks at Organoponico Vivero Alamar, an organic cooperative farm in Cuba, Alejandro Rivera, a dentist from Mexico, hopes to start a similar cooperative at home.
On an organic and sustainable farm, life is lush, for both the plants and the people.