The HIV and AIDS pandemic has changed the family structure as grandparents of sixty and over are left to care for children between 15 and 6. I visited HIV affected families in Lionde, a village in the outskirts of Chokwé, Mozambique, February 2019. It was heartbreaking for me to witness the ravages of the pandemia, and the dignity of the survivors.
Gianni Murzi is a doctor, who became a photographer and passionate story teller after attending seminars run by John Stanmeyer of National Geographic, then by Salwan Georges of the Washington Post and, in Rome, by Stefano Mirabella, an Italian professional photographer and teacher. In his career, Gianni worked as a surgeon in Mozambique, at the head of a rural hospital in the south of the country for four years, 1977 to 1981, before moving to Zanzibar, Tanzania, as head of an Italian medical team. Subsequently joined UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.
