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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
Exhibition booth NGO

HIVFactSheet app: The multipurpose HIV mobile application

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
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.
Exhibition booth NGO

Getting to Zero: Messaging to the people

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
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.
Exhibition booth NGO

Tajik Family Planning Association

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
Tajik Family Planning Association, TFPA, is a non-governmental organization that promotes the protection of human rights including SRHR. TFPA, as a member association of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), engages a wide range of supporters through volunteerism and social partnership. TFPA applies innovative approaches in providing access to information resources and services in the field of SRHR for vulnerable segments of society in Tajikistan. We envision a Tajikistan where every person is healthy and well informed, families and individuals make free and informed choices regarding their SRHR, everybody enjoys equal access to high quality SRH services, children are born wanted, and gender equity are observed and protected.
Cultural activity Art Exhibit

Ceremonial unfolding of the AIDS Memorial Quilt

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Art Exhibits Channel
Session Description
This year, the AIDS Memorial Quilt returned to San Francisco, where it was created more than 30 years ago. The 48,000 panels of the Quilt are now under the stewardship and care of the National AIDS Memorial. This beautiful aerial video shows the first official ceremonial unfolding of the Quilt in the heart of the National AIDS Memorial Grove. It is a powerful display of two symbols of the AIDS pandemic coming together as one to ensure the story of AIDS – the lives lost, the pain, the activism, the fear and the hope -- are never forgotten.
Cultural activity Live performance Theatre

House of Hopelezz

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Cultural Performance Channel
Session Description
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.
Cultural activity Film Screening

Kapana

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Film Screening Channel
Session Description
‘Kapana’ is a Namibian positive gay love story. In Namibia, sodomy is still a crime. As a result, gay relationships are stigmatized against. This is made worse when the person is also living with HIV. Many gay or bisexual men live in the closet. They hide their relationships and those happen often under unsafe circumstances. ‘Kapana’ follows the story of George, insurance broker, openly gay, with a supportive family and friends and his meeting with Simeon, a kapana seller (kapana is the local name for barbecued meat) who doesn’t want to accept he is gay and cannot imagine a place where he could be happy having a relationship with a man. It is a film about love and life in a country where such love is forbidden. It is a romance and we hope the film will help trigger discussions around the need to decriminalise such relationships.
Networking zone

The African Baraza: Refugees contribute to host community development

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Networking Zones Channel
Session Description
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!
Cultural activity Art Exhibit

Stories of Resilience

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Art Exhibits Channel
Session Description
The written and visual artwork displayed at this exhibition were collected as the #StoriesofResilience. The intention of this exhibition is to share the different realities experienced by young communities responding to HIV, focusing specifically on their resilience against HIV stigma. The pieces highlight personal experiences which allow viewers to witness the many meanings of resilience and commemorate the bravery displayed by these communities.
Exhibition booth NGO

San Francisco Community Health Center

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
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.
Exhibition booth NGO

Zambia Network of Young People Living with HIV (ZNYP+) / Antiretroviral Improved Access Initiative

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
Uptake of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is low among African adolescents and young people (AYP). "Know up to Grow Up" aims to improve AYP knowledge and demand for potent antiretrovirals (ARVs). This is especially important for current scale-up of dolutegravir (DTG), per WHO recommendations. Know Up provides knowledge on DTG, indications, benefits of use and side effects in AYP-appropriate language in a fun and interactive educational session, developed and delivered by AYP. Know Up also provides information to adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) on DTGs safety profile, including in pregnancy; concurrent contraception and alternative ARVs in the context of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). Grow Up will build on Know Up by advocating to AYP to demand and contribute to rights-based delivery of ART and PMTCT care. It will provide learning from experienced African AYP on HIV advocacy-leadership, specifically in demand-creation for HIV service utilization and scale-up of current and in-the-pipeline ARVs. The Know Up to Grow Up space will provide a platform for AYP-led intergenerational knowledge exchange.
Exhibition booth NGO

Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA)

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NGO Booth Channel
Session Description
The Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA) is a Nigerian indigenous NGO working to ensure that every individual with an illness or disease, especially women and girls, has access to treatment and to equitable, humane care and empowerment. PATA utilizes the following strategies/approach in the delivery of its activities: 1) advocacy 2) education and partnership building and 3) capacity building & mentoring. PATA uses their website as a platform for disseminating the organization's policies, showcasing their activities and will be used as a tool for resource mobilization.
Cultural activity Film Screening

Champions

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Film Screening Channel
Session Description
"Champions" is 3-minute slideshow and features protest photos through history from all over the world.