Voices from the Frontlines (Voices) is an easily replicable, high-impact theatrical performance and organizing project designed to educate and mobilize a broader public on the Global AIDS pandemic. Voices helps humanize the overwhelming statistics of the pandemic, through the stories of people in South Africa. This country, which so recently overcame the seemingly insurmountable scourge of apartheid, is now suffering the harshest consequences of AIDS. The program is designed to: inform and inspire increase compassion and decrease stigma motivate and mobilize immediate and sustained involvement in the AIDS crisis by a new, broader group of people increase support for ANSA's AIDS programs help other AIDS organizations to increase their outreach, improve their event production skills and raise funds Voices uses the intimate forum of theater to portray moving first-person accounts of South Africans with HIV/AIDS and/or those taking significant action to combat it. Noted artists perform the speeches, personal stories, music and poetry of noted and unsung heroes on the frontlines of the struggle, including: Nelson Mandela Nkosi Johnson, a brave 12 year-old who died of AIDS in 2000 Zackie Achmat, South Africa's leading AIDS activist and Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign Mercy Makhalemele, a PLWHA community organizer whose child died of AIDS Justice Edwin Cameron, a judge who is openly gay and a person living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) Many other South Africans infected or affected by HIV/AIDS U.S. advocates who connect the struggles Africa is facing with AIDS to the challenges in American communities of color The event culminates with a call to action and dissemination of information about immediate, tangible ways people can get actively involved locally, nationally and internationally in the fight against HIV/ AIDS as well as information about how to personally prevent HIV/AIDS infection and where to get HIV tests and treatment. Some productions of Voices feature well-known performers, capable of attracting diverse audiences as well as drawing media coverage to get the message to a wider public. ANSA is currently creating a Voices production kit so that the event can be produced by any interested group. The development of the Voices kit was funded by the John M. Lloyd Foundation.                    Zackie Achmat and Nelson Mandela Photographer: Eric Miller/Doctors without Borders