[Viva] Fwd: IAS 2018

[Denise Wozniak]

Thanks Peggy.. keep us informed please.  We loveyou being a representative
out there! Have lots of fun too!
Denise

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Tami Starlight <tamistarlight at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hiy hiy/thank you Peggy!
>
> Passed it onto some grassroots activists locally.
>
> Sent from my phone
> Tami Starlight
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> On Jul 23, 2018, at 6:58 PM, Margarite Sanchez <margaritesanchez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Exciting news directly from The IAC in Amsterdam!! Thank you Peggy!
> M
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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