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In this piece we hear from the founders, teachers, students and guardians of Prince Primary School, a community-run institution located in rural southwest Uganda. This region has been heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, and Prince was created 11 years ago to fill the growing void of quality education among the communities most vulnerable youth. However, the school has not been exempt from the stifling problems that its community members face daily, and its efforts have often been frustrated by the poverty that it works to alleviate. The Prince community has remained determined and have joined hands in solidarity with Project Focus and local community-based organization ICOD, to build the schools capacity to serve, and bring lasting change to the community as a whole.

Vocalo is teaming up with the About Face Youth Theater. At a recent theatre+activist workshop, we recorded parts of an intergenerational dialogue on HIV and AIDS. Here is one person's story.

Credit to: About Face Youth Theatre and Howard Brown Health Center's Mentor Program Intergenerational HIV / AIDS Dialogue Retreat

Marcia Katz has been working in community health centers for 17 years, and specializing in HIV medicine for nearly that long. Here, she talks about how combination therapy was spearheaded by grassroots organizers, and how HIV medicine isn't just about treating HIV.