[Viva] Fwd: IAS 2018

[Margarite Sanchez]

Exciting news directly from The IAC in Amsterdam!! Thank you Peggy!
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From: peggy Frank <pegfrank at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:30 PM
Subject: IAS 2018
To: Margarite Sanchez <margaritesanchez at gmail.com>


Hi Margarite.

I am hoping that you can share some of this with this with Viva. I’m
sitting at the overflow room of the opening plenary of the conference. It
is amazing to me that this event is sooo different than any AiDS conference
I have been to. Women, including one of the founders of the international
community of women living with HIV and AIDS, (sadly only 3 of 24 African
women still live) are making up most of the stage and at least half of
these women are young women. It’s about time but so wonderful to hear and
see the inclusion of trans women, young women, old women at an AIDS
conference. There has also been a lot of time and space given to
criminalization.
I will try to forward images. But it’s a bit hard to attend everything, and
eat and have fun in Amsterdam. Our BodyMaps - 10 of them from across the
country are in the global village. Where even those who cannot afford the
registration are able to see them and hear about Canada’s dismal litigation
and prosecution history. Things are beginning to change, as far as putting
people behind bars for non-disclosure - but now we need to allow those who
have been charged to clear their records. Lots of efforts still needed.
There is a huge recognition of the importance of addressing poverty if we
want global access to drugs as well as diversity and community  inclusion.
The best speaker so for was a young girl from Honduras. She showed us a
superb bridge that was built over a river. But the river moved. We need to
be careful to build useful long-lasting connections.

More later in the week. Love peg

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