Little victims

Children are often the invisible victims of South Africa’s epidemics of infectious illnesses and non-communicable diseases. (Photo by Darren Taylor)

Poor children are often the invisible victims of South Africa’s epidemics of infectious illnesses and non-communicable diseases. “Please don’t let me leave this place. I’ve got nothing to eat at home.” ​(Photo by Darren Taylor)  

Hospice psychologist Cameron Hogg shows off murals in a pastel-filled Wits Hospice playroom. Opposing walls are filled with African elephants lumbering toward a burnt-orange sunset. (Photo by Darren Taylor)
 

In a pediatric ward, a 16-year-old with HIV and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis who battles to talk and to breathe watches television. She plans to become a doctor who will help others. (Photo by Darren Taylor)  
 
 

“The girls love playing with this,” Hogg says as he holds a popular fairy doll. "Children have a far stronger sense of the truth of what’s going on ... they just sense it.” (Photo by Darren Taylor)  ​