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

[Margarite Sanchez]

Beautiful words from a beautiful friend at GNP+ on World AIDS Day!
love to all,
M
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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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