
Alicia Keys still can’t shake some of the things she saw while visiting AIDS-ravaged communities in Africa.
Ms. Keys, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, is the co-founder of Keep a Child Alive, a nonprofit that offers support to children and families affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa and India. To help publicize the organization’s work, Ms. Keys is appearing in a new documentary for which she took five young Americans on a tour of places in South Africa that have been hit hard by HIV and AIDS.
During the trip, Ms. Keys and her guests met with children who were forced to head households because their parents had been incapacitated or killed by the disease; they also visited communities that had banded together to try to deal with the health crisis. The special, “Keep a Child Alive with Alicia Keys,” will air on Showtime on Dec. 1.
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