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Global Village Channels:

  • Art Exhibits Channel
  • Cultural Performance Channel
  • Film Screening Channel
  • Global Village Sessions Channel
  • NGO Booth Channel
  • Networking Zones Channel
Cultural activity Film Screening

DRUG$: The Price We Pay

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Film Screening Channel
Session Description
A story that unpacks the mystery of modern medicine’s skyrocketing price tag and how it affects the people struggling to stay alive. Narrated by Academy Award ® Winner J.K. Simmons, “DRUG$” is a feature-length documentary about the soaring price of medicines in the U.S., featuring interviews with academics, patients, advocates and political leaders, including Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Elijah Cummings. In a titanic struggle against corporate greed, see how a diverse group of concerned Americans is fighting back to keep lifesaving medicines affordable for us all.
Cultural activity Art Exhibit

Photovoice Asia

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Art Exhibits Channel
Session Description
Queer photographers visited a number of Asian countries to produce these photographs of LGBTIQ community. Asia is progressing but still there are high levels of stigma, discrimination, violence and murder across the continent. “Photovoice Asia” aims to generate positive awareness and increase the acceptance of LGBTIQ population in Asia and around the world.
Cultural activity Film Screening

Nurse Annie

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Film Screening Channel
Session Description
Nurse Annie is a silent film, the first sex workers' safe sex film shot in 1986.
Exhibition booth NGO

Girls Act! by AIDS Healthcare Foundation

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
Girls Act empowers girls and young women to stay healthy and thrive! We support girls and young women to prevent HIV and STI infections & reduce unplanned pregnancies, ensure girls stay on treatment and help girls stay in school. A girl-led initiative, Girls Act fosters leadership and confidence for girls and young women to support each other, strengthen fundamental life skills, and develop community activism. We keep the promise to girls to ensure a brighter future!
Cultural activity Film Screening

Born Human

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Film Screening Channel
Session Description
Born Human is a candid documentary featuring transgender people globally and their inspirational experiences in pursuits of success, love and justice in an ambivalent society riddled with ignorance and fear that perpetuates threats of violence, high rates of HIV, poverty and unemployment. AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been supporting transgender issues globally for over ten years. We work with sex workers, and have dedicated transgender clinics and services around the world. The objectives are to empower and educate on the experience from the transgender community globally.
Cultural activity Art Exhibit

The STARS: Using pictures to eradicate stigma

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Art Exhibits Channel
Session Description
This artwork intends to stop the stigmatization faced by people living with HIV. To make this visible to especially youth and young adults, personal and individual pictures are taken by six (6) members of "The STARS". The STARS (Support, Train and Advocate in Response to Stigmatization), is a group of teenagers and young adults with lived experience in Ghana. Each picture goes along with a text, what briefly explains the picture and the message behind the picture through the eyes of the photographer.
Cultural activity Live performance Theatre

The Medea Project: Theater for incarcerated women/HIV circle

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Cultural Performance Channel
Session Description
The Medea Project Theatre for Incarcerated Women/ HIV Circle is a performance workshop rooted in storytelling . The Medea Project founded in !989 at San Francisco County Jail encouraged the female inmate to examine her participation in her own incarceration! The workshop utilizes the medium of autobiographical theater, movement, literature. music and visual arts increases self and social awareness. The Medea Project is a transformative program mining personal stories rooted in the "culture of women" utilizing self exploration to build an public performances. Planned Parenthood Northern California has collaborated with The Medea Project to explored women rights and choices! The Medea Project in the past four decades have embraced the life and times of women living with HIV to live out loud!
Networking zone

Real talk about HIV cure

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Networking Zones Channel
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A space for visitors to obtain accurate, accessible and relevant information on HIV cure research maintained by a coalition of community advisory boards (CABs) from international cure programs. The space facilitators will engage visitors in conversations about the lived experience of participating in HIV cure trials. These conversations will cover include informed consent, ethical recruitment strategies, equitable representation of key populations in HIV cure research, and concerns specific to treatment interruption trials. These discussions and activities will promote community resilience through developing cure literacy and connections between cure advocates and people living with HIV around the globe.
Cultural activity Film Screening

King of Contraceptive

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Film Screening Channel
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This film tells the story of Stanley Ngara, the self-crowned King of Condoms, who campaigns against HIV and AIDS and teen pregnancies by promoting condom use and other safer sex practices, as well as the use of PrEP and PEP. Dressed in his bright red "King of Condom" uniform, Stanley is on a mission to make Kenya HIV-free. His innovation has increased the uptake of HIV services, increased condom use, reducing stigma on HIV positive people and provided a positive image towards use of condoms.
Networking zone

Celebrating feminist wins and co-creating feminist futures

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Networking Zones Channel
Session Description
The Women's Networking Zone (WNZ) has been nurtured over time through cross movement collaboration between HIV and women's rights groups. WNZ is a vibrant, inclusive, and exciting space where community members, advocates, policy-analysts, decision-makers, service-providers, and researchers share and learn. WNZ also creates space for community building, safe space and strategizing. At AIDS 2020: Virtual, WNZ will be monumental, this is because 2020 also marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action and 20th anniversary of the UN security council resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security. The WNZ promotes dialogue, forges new networks, raises the visibility of HIV, champions the leadership of women living with HIV (with an emphasis on young women and women from the local community), and promotes the global exchange of experiences, abilities, and knowledge. Now more than ever when rights are under attack and gains at risk of this kind of space. We aim to create a WNZ space that will be community-focused forum, and to be the heart of women's rights organizing and movement building at AIDS 2020 and beyond.
Cultural activity Film Screening

I AM WHAT I AM

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Film Screening Channel
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This short movie explores complex relationship between sexuality and sexual identity. This film portrays reactions of two different individuals towards different religions.
Exhibition booth NGO

Bandhu and art

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
This booth will be hosted by experienced queer artists, with an aim of explaining how art can support youth people in preventing HIV. Bandhu Social Welfare Society aims to address the health care needs and human rights issues of sexual minority populations for achieving a vision of a Bangladesh where every person, irrespective of their gender and sexuality, is able to lead a quality life with dignity, human rights and social justice.