Book blurb:

If you’re reading this it means two things: you’re not an impulse buyer and you have a naturally inquisitive nature. In the first instance, it is too bad, because a book as hip and happening as Positively HIV deserves to be in your shopping basket. Buy it now and you’ll not only impress your friends and family, but support a worthy cause.

Which moves us right along to the second instance. Because of your inquisitive nature, we’d like to briefly tell you what Positively HIV is about and what it is not about.

Positively HIV is primarily a visual communication of the reality of HIV and AIDS in the southern African region. The artistic interpretation is one of love, hope and playfulness rather than doom and gloom.

Positively HIV showcases the extraordinary, internationally acclaimed craft art of Monkeybiz, a non-profit contemporary beading collective. It also honours the lives of women beaders living in various Cape Town informal settlements.

Positively HIV strives to deliver simple educational messages to a diverse readership. You too can learn to change your attitude and behaviour towards the disease and people affected by it.

Finally, Positively HIV is not a definitive source of HIV and AIDS education. But it proudly proclaims that even the smallest contributions ultimately serve to help transform the whole. All of which means that in buying the book, you’ll not only improve your knowledge about HIV and AIDS, but help the Monkeybiz beaders to prosper.