In Nairobi, India.Arie joined KENWA project manager Wangechi Kainga on visits to some of this capital city’s poorest slums, where those affected by HIV/AIDS are often beyond the reach of other channels of support.

KENWA, or the Kenyan Network of Women with HIV/AIDS, is a grassroots community-based organization created and run by women who are themselves living with HIV/AIDS. With Global Fund support, KENWA operates 7 centers in the slums of Nairobi, where most residents are unable to afford food, medicine, or education.

Outreach workers and care-givers like Lynn, who is featured, strive to challenge stigma, discrimination and isolation felt by women living with HIV/AIDS, and to provide daily emotional and practical support to women and children affected by the diseases. KENWA is one of 6 Global Fund grants to Kenyan organizations fighting AIDS, TB and Malaria.

YouthAIDS ambassador Ashley Judd, visited YouthAIDS Madagascar, an organization on the front lines of efforts to combat HIV/AIDS in this island nation. Ashley accompanied YouthAIDS peer educators as she visited with adolescents, and PSI’s Dr Rene as she visited with commercial sex workers, conducting workshops and promoting testing and prevention of secuallty-transmitted infections.

Through the circumstances of those Ashley visited, the documentary explores this critical moment in Madagascar’s efforts against the pandemic: With an HIV prevalence rate that is still relatively low, effective prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission can yet prevent the rapid escalation of the epidemic to the scale which has devastated so many African countries.

YouthAIDS is a global initiative of the non-profit organization Population Services International (PSI), which works in over 60 countries to educate and protect young people from HIV/AIDS. The PSI/YouthAIDS Madagascar grant is one of 8 Global Fund grants in Madagascar to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.