<span style='font-weight: bold'>Joyce</span><br />Twelve years old, Joyce cared for her two siblings while her mother succumbed to AIDS.

The Children of Malawi

A spectacular volume of photographs by Kristen Ashburn traces the lives of eight orphans featured in a Madonna-produced documentary about a nation caught in the web of the global AIDS crisis

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