[Viva] Fwd: 2017 World AIDS Day Message from GNP+

Fri Dec 1 22:26:35 PST 2017

That is incredibly beautiful. My heart is full.

I woulď love to ahare those I am missing, will anyone feel able to do the
same? Let's face it, World AIDS Day or other day, these people need
remembering.. please add to the list:

Maureen
Cheryl
Chantal

On Dec 1, 2017 8:17 PM, "Moyra Fielding" <moyrajune at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm THRILLED to be a small voice attached with love and sharing love with
> others that are such a wonderful blessing to this world....my heart goes
> out to all the hearts struggling with simular issues as I have and continue
> to have....it will be so warm to share life with such a warmhearted bunch
> as yourselves and I'm going to have such a hard long wait untill next
> year(I understand you only meet once a year)I already wish each of  this
> new list of fellow comrades the very best of good health and sunshinny
> happiness our creator can bring and ask him to keep you all safe tucked
> under a wing as you celebrate this holiday season with those you
> love....Thank you for allowing me to be included with your lives.....for
> now....all the best of AIDS day 2017 and may you have many more full of
> love to come..........Valerie Fielding
>
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Denise Wozniak <deniseswozniak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Viva friends:
>>
>> This message is one that needs to be heard.. we do need to unite in this
>> struggle. There are too many who have been lost and are still being lost to
>> this affliction.
>>
>> Thank you for sharing Margarite, and for having the foresight to start
>> Viva.
>>
>> Remembering and reinvigorated!
>>
>> Denise
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2017 10:11 PM, "Margarite Sanchez" <margaritesanchez at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Beautiful words from a beautiful friend at GNP+ on World AIDS Day!
>>> love to all,
>>> M
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: GNP+ Communications <newsletter at gnpplus.net>
>>> Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 5:25 AM
>>> Subject: 2017 World AIDS Day Message from GNP+
>>> To: "margaritesanchez at gmail.com" <margaritesanchez at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Click here to view Laurel’s World AIDS’s Day video message as well!
>>> <http://newsletter.gnpplus.net//l/spSf2l48Wz9lwUjkOpG9yA/D3kKv3MzxdyjygJg763oho5Q/sAkkCv3VyfLZKc9T2eMP892w>*
>>>
>>> 2017 World AIDS Day Message from the Global Network of People Living
>>> with HIV (GNP+)
>>>
>>> World AIDS Day is the day we come together to remember and pay our
>>> respects to those who have come before us. Those who survived for a short
>>> time or for years, those who fought for us, those who loved us, those who
>>> died hard deaths, those who were afraid, those who were fighting to the end
>>> and those who went filled with love and compassion for those they left
>>> behind.
>>>
>>> Many of the us, those living with HIV, our friends, loved ones,
>>> co-workers, communities, and those who freely joined us as part of the
>>> struggle – many of us have lost loved ones to AIDS. Our communities and our
>>> lives are brighter because they lived and yet we know that we are all less
>>> than we could be because a generation, sometimes two generations of people
>>> are gone.
>>>
>>> It is my hope that we have more fight in us still to renew our efforts
>>> against the racism, sexism, homophobia, and other prejudices that fuel –
>>> and have always fuelled – the HIV epidemic. To do this will require that
>>> each of us with HIV and in this movement commit to understand and address
>>> our own prejudices and then to taking action, from a place of compassion,
>>> solidarity and strength to right the wrongs that still plague the response
>>> to HIV.
>>>
>>> We, at GNP+, believe that a better world is still possible. We believe
>>> that a better world for people living with HIV will mean a better world for
>>> everyone. We know that people living with HIV, our people, are still
>>> without treatment in many places, and without quality treatment in others,
>>> still without proper diagnostics, still vulnerable to ARV resistance, still
>>> without enough food. We know that people living with HIV, our people, are
>>> still imprisoned because of their HIV status, still facing domestic
>>> violence, still without enough jobs and enough income. We know that people
>>> living with HIV, our people, still stand, shoulder to shoulder, and fight
>>> together for universal access to HIV testing and treatment, universal high
>>> quality health care, for legal protection from discrimination and against
>>> bad laws that criminalize us and those in our communities, and for the
>>> right to make decisions about our bodies, our families and reproduction,
>>> and who we are sexually intimate with. We still stand for ALL people living
>>> with HIV, gay men, lesbians, transgender people, heterosexual women and
>>> men, children and adolescents, babies and those who are elderly.
>>>
>>> On behalf of GNP+, we want to thank all the people who stood with US and
>>> believed in US during the last few difficult years. For World AIDS Day
>>> 2017, we are launching a new strategic planning process.  A survey will be
>>> released shortly for people living with HIV around the world. In this
>>> survey, the State of People Living with HIV: Back to Basics, we ask for
>>> your honest feedback and for your hopes and dreams for what a truly global
>>> movement of people living with HIV could look like. What could we do
>>> together?
>>>
>>> If you are a person living with HIV, please watch our webpage and social
>>> media for the survey link. We ask everyone to forward this to everyone you
>>> know so that we can get the widest and most diverse set of PLHIV voices
>>> possible.
>>>
>>> To everyone reading or listening
>>> <http://newsletter.gnpplus.net//l/spSf2l48Wz9lwUjkOpG9yA/rQZaDSPSlhd6F15d8eXSEg/sAkkCv3VyfLZKc9T2eMP892w>
>>>  to this message, thank you for your attention, time, love, criticism,
>>> support, and engagement with the Global Network of People Living with HIV
>>> in 2017.
>>>
>>>
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