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Global Village session Workshop
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Global Village Workshops Channel 1
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Stress is a silent killer of persons living with HIV. Studies have shown that chronic stress decreases the CD4+ T-cell count of HIV+ individuals and predisposes them to mental disorders. The WHO recommends that psychosocial care like mindfulness practices be integrated into standard HIV therapy. This workshop aims to put the spotlight on mindfulness meditation as a useful adjunct to antiretroviral therapy and to teach participants how to practice this form of mindfulness in their daily lives.
Global Village session Workshop
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Global Village Workshops Channel 1
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This workshop will address the intersecting aspects of DV and HIV. Participants will receive an overview on DV and how perpetrators of violence use HIV status to exert power and control. The session will provide attendees with trauma-informed promising practices to implement when working with individuals that disclose DV, as well as tips and resources to assist in building partnerships with local DV program(s).
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Hum Kaha - Kolkata Rista

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This audio performance focuses on the manifold practices of discrimination encountered by transgender (TG) youth existing with HIV. The show is performed by transgender community members, intending to create a pathway for inclusion of young PLHIV in both transgender communities and wider society. The eight participants are from the transgender-Kothi-Hijra community in small-town and rural areas of West Bengal, India. The show illustrates a young transgender woman who has been facing continuous physical assaults by her cis-gendered male partner. She also has also faced unremitting ostracization by her family and society upon her disclosure of being HIV positive. As the drama unfolds, she gets support and moral encouragement from others in her TG community, seven of whom unite and resist the violence against her in order to protect her. Through their solidarity, they succeed in reintegrating the victimized transgender person with her family and neighbors. The program concludes with a celebratory dance on the song of poet Rabindranath Tagore’s mellifluous lines, “pothe ebar nabo sathi”, which means "let's come together and realize our shared struggles".
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