Young people with HIV in Brazil’s poorest favelas often have no support, but in Boi Malhado, one team is determined to provide vital help
Words and photographs by Sarah Johnson
On a hill overlooking a middle-class neighbourhood and a hospital lies one of São Paulo’s slums – home to about 300 families trying to eke out a living in the largest city in Brazil. Here in Boi Malhado, ramshackle dwellings built with planks of wood and corrugated iron are perched precariously on the hillside. Only recently, one house belonging to a mother and her newborn baby collapsed. Both survived but the remains are there for everyone to see.
Children run up and down narrow passageways between laundry lines and live electric wires; sewers are a hole in the ground covered by a piece of wood; and water access is sporadic – it’s common for the community to go without for days. “Our government is very unfair,” says resident Mariangela Ferreira, 35. “We pay our taxes and we don’t even have the basics.”
Paraisópolis, the largest favela in São Paulo (top); around 300 families live in this particular area of the Boi Malhado favela (bottom left); the remains of a house which collapsed (bottom right)
Sandra Santos (right) talks to residents of Boi Malhado about HIV
A pregnant resident of Boi Malhado stands in her house (top); views in and out of the favela (bottom left and right)
Santos with three teenage residents of Boi Malhado
Thiago Martins and Renata Ferreira in the grounds of Emilio Ribas hospital where they receive treatment for HIV
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