Tarapacá honors HIV/AIDS victims at annual Candlelight vigil

Each May, communities around the world light candles to hold space between grief and resolve — and in Tarapacá, Chile, that ritual gathered students, physicians, and health officials at Arturo Prat University to honor those lost to HIV and AIDS. The vigil, born in 1983 and now woven into the global health calendar, carried a dual purpose: to remember the dead and to reckon honestly with how much their deaths cost before treatment became a right. Chile has made real progress — free antiretroviral therapy, public health guarantees, and now PrEP as a prevention tool — yet the authorities gathered