In this networking zone, called the African Baraza, the work of refugees will be displayed in form of pictorial charts, films, newsprint and other ways of showcasing their contribution to their local host communities. This will run for the entire duration of the Global Village and Youth Programme at AIDS 2020: Virtual. Welcome to the African Baraza!

The mission of East Bay Getting to Zero is to advance health equity and promote healing for all people impacted by HIV. Our vision is an East Bay with zero HIV stigma, health disparities, or new HIV transmissions. Come discuss with us about how we've been doing the work we do, responding to the needs of our community and putting people-first.

For over 30 years the single focus of San Francisco Community Health Center, in all its various historic forms, has been and remains to be the uplifting of individuals and communities so that they may reach their maximum life potential. As Asian AIDS Project and GCHP Living Well Project, and then as Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, the board and staff boldly engaged the API LGBT community in work beyond HIV services to the improvement of the whole persons' and whole communities' health and well-being. This work with the Asian and Pacific Islander communities continues and has laid the foundation for work across all communities of color.

Drag Queens have historically played an important role in the HIV response in many communities. They challenge gender norms, push understandings about sexuality and share valuable information about HIV and STIs, harm reduction, sex work and working your sex. House of Hopelezz is the oldest and most populated group of Drag Queens in the Netherlands, working to spread a sex and body positive message to the world. House of Hopelezz organizes weekly queer parties at Club Church in Amsterdam, which include political and gender asylum seekers, friends with the virus, misfits, and party monsters from all gender, sexualities and paths of life.

This networking zone will present the "Guide to recommendations on comprehensive health care for Trans women in Latin America and the Caribbean," a trigger to work on strategies to improve high-quality access to health services as well as treatments for HIV. In many key populations the response to HIV is an unfinished topic where we must work intersectionally. Discrimination, stigma and exclusion of the trans population, as well as the violation of autonomy, are common practices in public and private health services. We must work against these so that access to quality comprehensive health is reflected in treatment, prevention, care, support, adherence and advice, as the lack of legal recognition of trans identities in Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the main reasons why this population has denied or violated access to the human right to health.

This short covers a journey for a transwoman - Fradish. Fradish is a fabulous, passionate and a well known dancer in her area. But has her journey been so easy? Did her parents and other family members supported her?

The purpose of this exhibition is to showcase a new android mobile application that was designed to increase awareness and support around HIV. HIVFactSheet App is a mobile application that contains comprehensive information about HIV and Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Its purpose is to educate, equip and empower its users about HIV and sexual health.The App which was first unveiled in Kenya has the following functionalities: 1) HIV testing platform where people are encouraged to get tested; 2) platforms that provide comprehensive information about HIV and reproductive health; 3) clinic referral platform where the user can find the nearest health center when in need of care; 4) communication channel that connects the user with an online counselor for counseling purposes and referrals; 5) youth initiatives platform where user can find opportunities in the field of health; 6) blog application that provides interactive forum for the users, where they can discuss matters of HIV and reproductive health; 7) links the user with NASCOP Viral Load System.

The film, the combination of 11 episodes of a mini web series, portrays issues and perceptions around HIV/AIDS among young members of the LGBT+ community and aims to re-start this dialogue, especially among young people, in Cambodia in relations to intervention strategies that work for them, including what could be done to better understand their needs and address their concerns in a more inclusive manner.

The Kinnar Akhada movement empowers the transgender community and opens a path towards mainstream acceptance by re-establishing their lost Hindu spiritual identity. This work is a photographic documentation of a growing movement and new spiritual identity created by third gender of India. The photos portray themes that emerged during a month-long ritual where the third gender, for the first time, asserted themselves as a bona fide sub-group within the Kumbh Mela and the Hindu community at large.

The Hard Bop Collective is a San Francisco-based jazz quartet featuring Daniel Casares (tenor saxophone), Jordan Samuels (Guitar), Tomoko Funaki (bass), and Austin Harris (drums). They are joined for this “virtual” concert by Peter Hunt (trumpet), an HIV researcher at UCSF. They will perform five standards spanning several different styles, but all reflecting the conference themes of resilience, partnership, and collaboration. They will perform: Smile; Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; Meditation; Social Call; and Bourbon Street Parade.

The UCLA Art & Global Health Center is a prominent international art-and-health think tank, which uses creativity to fight the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS and to push for behavior and policy change. The Artivists Room is a space for HIV-positive storytellers who have participated in the innovative international project, Through Positive Eyes, to liaise with other activist artists (Artivists) engaged in anti-AIDS work. Through Positive Eyes is a photo-storytelling project in which people living with HIV or AIDS in ten major cities around the world tell about their lives through word and image, as a method for reducing the debilitating stigma associated with AIDS. The cities represented include Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Mumbai, Bangkok, Port au Prince, London, and Durban. Starting in 2016, Through Positive Eyes has been seen by tens of thousands of South Africans in Durban, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. The exhibition embarked on a U.S. tour starting in September 2019 at the UCLA Fowler Museum, aimed at reaching public school ninth graders in the LA Unified School District. In early 2021 the exhibition will be moving to the Gates Discovery Center in Seattle.

Since 2014, Visual AIDS has commissioned and distributed new, short videos about the ongoing HIV and AIDS epidemic on December 1 for Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day. This program brings together selections from these video programs, which have addressed subjects such as contemporary HIV activism, Black experiences of the epidemic, and resonant cultural histories from the past three decades. Learn more and see additional videos at visualaids.org/dwa. On December 1, 2020, we will launch seven new videos from artists working around the world. To learn more and get involved in the 2020 program, visit visualaids.org/dwa2020.