Sergej from AIDS in Odessa, 2006. © Andrea Diefenbach

Wall from AIDS in Odessa, 2006. © Andrea Diefenbach

Andrea Diefenbach is a German photographer. In the spring of 2006, Diefenbach spent time with several HIV-positive Ukranian women and men as they went about their daily routines in the harbor city of Odessa, documenting an AIDS epidemic that had then been largely overlooked in the international news media. These images are from her book СПИД [spid] AIDS in Odessa published by Hatje Cantz in 2008. 

For more information visit the artist’s website. 
Images courtesy of Andrea Diefenbach.