Tag: Andri Tambunan

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In 2009 I started Against all Odds, a project documenting the HIV/AIDS epidemic among indigenous Papuans in Indonesia. Currently, Papua has the highest HIV/AIDS infection rate in the country, 15 times higher than the national average and the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence outside of Africa.

Link: Andri Tambunan Documents AIDS Among Indonesia’s Indigenous Papuans – NYTimes.com

Andri Tambunan, an American-raised photographer who lives in Jakarta, has been documenting the epidemic among the indigenous Papuans since 2009. The images in his project “Against All Odds” are a searing reminder that while in other parts of the world AIDS is increasingly becoming a manageable, chronic illness, it remains a ferociously deadly disease among the Papuans.