• Howard Armistead with the stack of medical journal articles he read before publishing his first abstract at the 1992 Amsterdam Aids Conference concerning how aspirin affects HIV disease (as an NF-kB inhibitor and immune booster).

  • Protest at the Vancouver Aids Conference 1996. This conference introduced protease inhibitors and briefly there was hope they would be the cure.

  • World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters. Geneva Aids Conference was 1998.

  • UNAIDS headquarters across from the WHO. Geneva, Switzerland.

  • Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) Protest at 2000 Durban Aids Conference.

  • Howard Armistead at the Barcelona Aids Conference, 2002.

  • Dr Peter Piot, discoverer of the Ebola virus and former head of UNAIDS (tallest) and Dr Jerry Coovadian, Co-Chair of the Conference (grey hair). Opening ceremony of the Durban Aids Conference, 2000.

  • Former President Bill Clinton between the President of India and the President of Ruanda, with three other presidents at the Barcelona Aids Conference, 2002.

  • Traditional African healers at the Barcelona Aids Conference.

  • Howard Armistead at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Their Journal of Tropical Paediatrics published his paper, “Taking the HIV Factory Tour” in September 2001

  • Howard Armistead passing out information at the United Nations Conference to establish the Global Fund Against HIV/Aids, Malaria and TB. New York City, June 2001.

  • Howard Armistead speaking with the Minister of Health of Namibia (in white) and the Minister of Health of Botswana (in grey print dress) at the Third International Conference on the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants. Kampala, Uganda, September 2001.

  • Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda.

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    National Aids/STD Control Program, Nairobi, Kenya

  • Kenyatta National Hospital, largest hospital in East Africa. Nairobi, Kenya.

  • Humana People to People Aids Program Office, Bindura, Zimbabwe, 2001.

  • Children happy to greet a foreigner in their village near Bindura, Zimbabwe.

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    Crossing the Zambezi River from Zimbabwe to Zambia for the first time. September 2001.

  • A project for HIV positive people to grow their own food. Near Bindura, Zimbabwe.

  • Crossing the Zimbabwe-Zambia border crossing by bus often takes up to three hours to clear customs on both sides.

  • Howard Armistead at University Teaching Hospital (UTH), the largest hospital in Zambia. Lusaka 2003

  • Howard Armistead with former President Kenneth Kaunda, the Nelson Mandela of Zambia. Lusaka, 2006

  • Howard Armistead with a class of Catholic home based care nurses he taught. 2006, Lusaka, Zambia

  • Howard Armistead helped organize the first non-governmental Aids March in Zambia.

  • Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign (TALC) marchers laid wooden crosses in front of the offices of the National HIV/Aids/STI/TB Council

  • Native drummers and dancers during the launch of an Aids program at the Zambian Ministry of Health. 2007

  • Former President Kenneth Kaunda spoke to the six hundred people at the TALC rally and called for the Zambian government to allow selenium to get to the people with HIV who needed it.

  • Howard Armistead, age 61. 28 years living with HIV. Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012.

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