Chien-Chi Chang has been a Magnum photographer since 1995. He lives in Taipei and New York. Chang has just completed a reportage for Médecins du Monde on the AIDS epidemic in Tanzania, where more than 6% of the population is affected.
Tanzania has become one of the important crossroads of drug trafficking in Africa. Both a hub and a place of consumption, the country has more than 25 000 injecting drug users. A number constantly increasing in large cities where heroin injection is spreading, and with it the transmission of HIV and hepatitis.
The AIDS epidemic, in which MdM has worked for 18 years, now affects 6.5% of the Tanzanian population. It focuses primarily on risk groups , including injecting drug users . According to the survey conducted by MdM, 30% of men and 67% of women injecting are infected. Faced with this alarming prevalence, MdM a year ago launched the first program of risk reduction associated with drug use by injection of East Africa in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam.
Bongo Fever : a photographic and video essay by Chien-Chi Chang
Presented by Magnum Photos, in association with MdM
