Larry Towell en Lurigancho

The Cardboard House: Msf Peru -- 25 Years on AIDS 2008.

In Lima, MSF has been working in Lurigancho, one of the most populated prisons

of Latin America. In this prison the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS is 5 to 7 times higher than

in the rest of the country. At the end of 2007 MSF hand over all Peruvian

projects to local authorities, leaving the country after almost 25 years.

Larry Towell (Magnum Photos) was commissioned by MSF to travel to the prison

and the slums in Lima to photograph the resul tof MSF s 25-year presence, and show that the

area is now ready to continue its fight against HIV and AIDS on its own.

Towell brings us black and white images of people shunned by society and desperate

through poverty, their situation exacerbated through the endemic HIV and AIDS in their

already marginalised population. MSF has targeted their cause for the past 25 years.

This book is a celebration of their work and the people whose existence they have salvaged.