Through Positive Eyes is a 28-min. documentary about two HIV-positive protagonists: Mary Bowman (23), poet and performance artist; and D’Angelo Morrison (22), budding HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ youth advocate and activist. The film shows the journey Mary and D’Angelo take from overcoming discrimination from within their families and fear of disclosing their status publicly, to gaining the confidence and strength to become advocates for reducing stigma around HIV/AIDS. It shows how being infected today is not a death sentence but it’s no walk in the park either. By documenting their own lives using cameras and thereby disclosing their status to a wider public, Mary and D’Angelo give us a unique and intimate perspective on an illness made worse by people’s attitudes towards it and show us that the human spirit is sometimes strongest in the face of adversity.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

The 2020 landscape of HIV prevention research, development and implementation is complex and dynamic. With efficacy trials of preventive vaccines, broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs), long-acting injectables, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and multi-purpose prevention technologies (MPTs), to ongoing PrEP rollout, to the integration of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV, the landscape requires multisectoral engagement and renewed resilience for HIV research and development (R&D) as a key component of the global HIV response.

Photo exhibition. In theory, the prognosis for a person diagnosed with HIV, Hepatitis C or TB is now better than it ever has been. In reality, that depends on where you live and who you are. Access to medicines is not equitable. Millions of people die each year because essential drugs are overpriced. Scientific advancements are worthless if they are out of reach. When health budgets won't stretch to treat everyone in need, the most vulnerable are left behind. Treatment activists around the world are fighting patent barriers to make medicines affordable. We won’t stop until everyone can access the life-saving medicines they deserve. www.makemedicinesaffordable.org

Hosted by Human Touch Foundation, this booth will be a space for dialogue and shared learning to raise visibility/understanding of ALHIVs.