Tim Gruber and Jenn Ackerman use both photography and video to tell stories for editorial and commercial clients. 
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Today I found the real premise behind my HIV project — No one deserves HIV and AIDS.
Yet, in the region where I am photographing, people think that those with HIV did something [wrong] to get the disease.
No one deserves this disease. Not one. This fact became real today when I took a photo of a 29-year-old with his 6 -year-old brother swinging on the swings before saying goodbye. I started thinking about the thread that is holding these four separate stories together. It is the fact that they are all great people with great love for life and people and they all have HIV. Throughout my project, my objective has been to show that these people are good people and they have similar desires and loves and they are just as susceptible to the disease as anyone. The perception that HIV is a “disease for bad people” needs to be erased and I hope that my photos will help to do just that.
I hope my project will reveal that you don’t have to be promiscuous or share drug needles to get infected. You can be a mom or a brother or a grandmother or a friend. It is my hope is that these images will help those who are positive hold the same respect as those who are negative.
I will be very interested to see the final project when you are done. One of the things that is very bizarre is how the Centers for Disease (CDC) identify the risk category (ie exposure category) for women. If a woman is not an IV drug user, they ask her about the sexual history of her partner(s). If she does not know whether or not her male partner was an IDU or had homosexual sex, she is consider to be an “unidentifiable” risk. Not only does this practice seem horribly biased and sexist- it doesn’t allow folks in prevention and public health planning to gear to the needs of women very well. Men are never asked about their partner’s risks, only womren are asked about their partners.