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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

This session will include topics on sexuality and AYALHIV in Nigeria, understanding sex and gender, sexual risk perception, access to sexuality education, access to SRHR and SGBV services in Nigeria, preparing for sexual partner disclosure, motivations for sexual partner disclosure among PLHIV, discordant couple support, sexual partner disclosure, gender, intimate-partner violence, access to care, partner testing and HIV prevention.

Homelessness in the San Francisco, California Bay Area has reached critical levels and can have devastating health consequences. The pressure of daily survival needs, exposure to violence, substance use as a means to cope with stress or mental health issues, make people experiencing homelessness (PEH) extremely vulnerable to acquiring HIV and other illnesses. Furthermore, many PEH do not have adequate resources to prepare meals, take showers, do laundry, or access medical care. For over 35 years, CAL-PEP has provided mobile health services to populations who cannot otherwise access care and is currently leading a six-entity coalition providing comprehensive mobile services to PEH called the MOST Project. This “one stop shop” provides showers, clothing, meals, hot beverages, health screenings, linkages to health care, substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, linkages to housing, and systems-navigation support to PEH throughout Alameda county. These services nurture preexisting relationships with communities of people experiencing homelessness who are living with HIV, and form the basis for successful linkage to, engagement with, and retention in medical care. This booth’s objective is to give Global Village attendees a better understanding of the lived experiences and needs of PEH in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visitors will learn about challenges faced and ways to address basic needs of PEH living with HIV.

A real life story of a young Trans woman in Pakistan, who turned her pain into power and strength.

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. Our booth highlights and promotes our work using the intersection of art and activism as a catalyst for continuing the dialogue about HIV/AIDS in the art world and beyond. Based on our history of creating activist broadsheets and related projects, our booth will serve as a distribution center for information about our publications, artist print projects such as Play Smart VII, four new comics commissions illuminating the diverse realities of living with HIV today, an introduction about the Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry and Archive, and a gathering space to talk about the impact of art in the HIV response. Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement.