Join us as we screen "Pay or Quit" at the Global Village. In 2019 we created this fictional short movie to be used in trainings for street outreach teams. "Pay or Quit" is centered on the story of a Black Trans woman who's experiencing housing insecurity and struggling with addiction. We developed the script with a series of focus groups at CalPEP - the California Prostitutes Education Program - based in West Oakland, California. In late 2020 we'll be fundraising to create two more movies - one centered on the experiences of Black Cis-Women and one on Black Men who have sex with Men. Pay or Quit Filmmakers: CB Smith-Dahl: Director, Co-Writer Jasmine Powell: Actor Troy Rockett: Actor Rigo Valadez-Bigler: Co-Writer Danielle Thompson: Videographer Shane Watson: Editor Gloria Lockett: Producer

End Hep C SF exists to support all San Franciscans living with and at risk for hepatitis C (HCV) to maximize their health and wellness. We achieve this through prevention, testing, treatment, and linkage to reduce incidence and mortality related to HCV. While many people with HCV are able to smoothly access care in San Francisco, others face barriers to getting tested and completing treatment. Particularly for people disproportionately impacted by HCV, such as people who use drugs, people of color, and people who are LGBTQ or unhoused, this obstructs equitable access to care. In August 2019 End Hep C SF, released a plan for microelimination of HIV/HCV co-infection in San Francisco. This initiative strives to reduce HCV among PLWH in San Francisco by 90% by 2023.

We Are Dad follows the lives of one family: two white gay pediatric nurses and their five foster children—it’s a family with an abundance of both love and complications. Four of the children have AIDS; three of the youngsters are African American; and the two white children have been careening through the foster care system after coming out of a backwater cult in Oregon. Their compelling story unfolds against the backdrop of a hotly contested issue in America—and especially in the family’s home state of Florida: whether LGBTQ couples are “suitable” as adopting parents. This bracing film follows the dads’ struggles to overturn both legal and emotional prejudices while building a stable and loving home for their diverse family.

Unheard Stories is a project by TRANScend, an initiative of The Humsafar Trust (India’s oldest registered LGBTQ organisation), supported by Publicis Sapient. It is a collection of films depicting transgender lives in India. The need for this project emerged from sensitization workshops conducted with employers and educational institutes around awareness on transgender issues. These workshops included transgender persons telling their own stories which made the concepts on sex, sexuality and gender ‘real’ for the audience. However, it also meant the speakers reliving the trauma of discrimination, harassment, violence and abuse faced by them, every time they narrated their stories. Hence, short films on lives of transgender men and women were made with an objective of portraying their lived realities in a dignified and compassionate manner.

By highlighting Indigenous issues and culture, the Indigenous Peoples Networking Zone (IPNZ) will contribute to the recognition of Indigenous Peoples to be included in the “key populations” of HIV vulnerability that receive allocated and targeted funding globally in order to develop evidence-based Indigenous specific strategies.The IPNZ will be a culturally safe and open space for Indigenous Peoples and their allies to meet, discuss, learn and share information. Our program of events for the duration of the conference features panel discussions, networking collaboration, collective brainstorming, presentations, workshops, video/audio resources, traditional practices and cultural performances; catering to all the diverse populations within the Indigenous cultures of the world including key populations including but not limited to the LGBT community, women and children, Elders, people who use drugs, people involved in the sex trade and families. Local, national and international Indigenous partners will collaborate and showcase their culture and their work including local Indigenous organizations.

Throughout 2019, five of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s partner organizations, in South Africa and Uganda, documented their efforts to change the course of the AIDS pandemic in their communities. All content in “Youth Championing Youth” was created by these organizations, healthcare professionals, teachers and the courageous youth featured in the film. The voices, insights and experiences are their own. Over 88% of the 2.8 million children and adolescents living with HIV around the world live in sub-Saharan Africa, and globally, more than 6,000 young women, aged 15-24, are diagnosed with HIV every week. Despite obstacles – gender inequalities, stigma, food insecurity, economic hardships, and the fact that they must adhere to HIV medication every day for the rest of their lives – young people are rising up to educate, prevent transmission and create better futures for themselves and their communities.

The booth will present voices as "stories" from LGBTQIA+ HIV advocates and those of people living with HIV. The teams will be available for interactions and will answer Q&A as well as present stories of people on ground during the "interaction hour". The booth will have educational videos, content, manuals, campaigns that Yaariyan and HST has co-created for HIV awareness, education, prevention and treatment in the past. Resource material (pamphlets, manuals, videos) developed by Yaariyan and HST can be downloaded/adapted to the viewers'/attendees' local context.

It's no secret. HIV and climate change are two of the world's most pressing issues; and those living in poverty are drastically impacted by a changing climate and health challenges such as HIV. For the past 12 years, LetsStopAIDS has partnered with the AIDS Foundation of South Africa and Food & Trees for Africa in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to facilitate community workshops around preventing and addressing HIV. We are looking to expand friends from various parts of the world to join Spread Trees, Not AIDS.

The Desiree Alliance, Black Sex Worker Collective, New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance, Outlaw Project, and Best Practices Policy Project, host the IAC2020 Sex Worker Networking Zone. Stop by our virtual booth from 1:00-2:00 PM PDT daily to see what we're doing!

LiveLifeLoving is a stigma-free platform composed of an open youth-HIV Library, easy-to-understand knowledge and resource sections, and an innovative lifestyle-focused e-community to serve as the first point-of-contact for youth affected by HIV. We are looking to share unique stories of others from around the world living or affected by HIV. You will also be able to (virtually) contribute submissions at our booth :)

An exhibition of the community-based intervention in HIV with Venezuelan migrants/refugee and key populations in highly vulnerable conditions in Bogota, Colombia. Social evidence of effective intervention in cases of migratory crises and activation routes within the Colombian health system will be shown.

DALLIANCES explores the crossroads between HIV stigma, LGBT discrimination and their resultant mental health issues. It is a riveting story of love, regret and desire; striking empathy, to evoke advocacy for people living with HIV/AIDs. The story has been adopted and filmed in quarantine, set in Kampala and New York.