#wad2018

A Buhinēn Commemoration of the WORLD AIDS DAY 2018 Thank you so much for inviting me as your Resource Speaker for "What Motivated me to become and HIV/AIDS Awareness Advocate?" #WeVowToEndTheStigma #KnowYourStatus #WAD2018 #WorldAidsDay2018 #ResourcePerson #ProjectRedRibbon #TRR #MyAdvocacy #HIVAIDSawareness @trrcares World Health Organization (WHO) Save the Children US The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria #lhivefree (at Buhi, Camarines Sur) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq_9ZMLHtz5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a2mixyx7xxk4

Good afternoon! May love, peace, protection, gratitude, enough, now, grace and mercy reside with you today. Yesterday, history was made at The NC Executive Mansion out of the Office Public Engagement under the vision and leadership of @_allisonmathews & @jeremyjcollins...They also had the support of a dynamic support team, which included the distinguished ladies of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. (Chapel Hill Alumnae Chapter). It was World AIDS Day 2018 and this convening of diverse voices and some of the brightest minds unified to discuss and re-imagine “NC Beyond HIV” without human manufactured borders. Although this is the 30th year of global observance for WAD and countless advancements have been made to eradicate this “human” infection, there is STILL so much work to do in moving the agenda forward to fully realize this goal. Unfortunately, many manifestations of stigma are STILL pervasive, which inform and impact access to prevention and treatment services. We can do better. Again, this is not an “us” versus “them” problem: it’s a human one. Consequently, if we really want to “get to zero”, we have to be willing to “let go” of ineffective practices and ways of thinking and “make room” to embrace innovative ideas and approaches from new human energy. This can be achieved by veterans and pioneers in the field of HIV/AIDS intentionally working cooperatively with younger practitioners, community members, leaders, etc. via mentoring and co-learning. It was a great day filled with infinite possibilities. It was also a privilege and an honor to gift “the people’s” house with a signed print of my internationally recognized creation, “We Are ALL the Face of HIV/AIDS. It will become a permanent piece in their art collection. This was made possible by @digitallincs...#fctalk #freedomclay #wad2018 #afrofolkartbyfreedomclay #creatingsociallyresponsibleart #weareallthefaceofhivaids #untilthecure #digitallincs #2beathiv #supersoulsunday (at The North Carolina Executive Mansion) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5LcMWHh36/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q7qnez79bn30

© 2018 - Vazquez

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo Check out the facts concerning the up-to-date basis of HIV here: https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics #WAD2018 #NMAC (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq3bGgFFMwh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15d43a6ng0pcl

It's been 6 years since I worked for @thtorguk but it still means so much to me to observe World AIDS day and highlight a condition that has so much stigma. I proudly wear my ribbon to say I will never stop supporting the fight to end stigma around HIV and AIDS. #worldaidsday #wad2018 #AIDS #HIV #THT (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq3akXtn4TW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=72bikeqqij0n

This year, in commemoration of #WorldAIDSDay2018, we’re doing outreach in #Brooklyn at the Medgar Evers College, CUNY production of “Theories & Apologies,” a choreographic rendition of the lives and emotions of families during the early stages of the HIV pandemic by Lamont Joseph, a Queer Caribbean dancer and founder of Bloodline Dance Theatre Co. • One of the event’s honorees includes Victoria Cruz, the #LGBTQ activist, retired counselor for survivors of intimate partner violence and dedicated advocate for the #HIV-affected communities in NYC is being honored tonight for her work on the Netflix documentary “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.” . . . . . . . #WAD2018 #KnowingMatters #GetTested #Caribbean #LGBT #WAD (at Medgar Evers College, CUNY) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq3NvY_Aevu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=f63q2b5dssn9

Today is #WorldAIDSDay2018. I wear Red because NO ONE should have to live in shame or die with a secret. #WAD2018 #ZPhiBGoesRed #THZ #ZPhiBMDZHOPE https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq3KXLgg3_c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=et0kqe97qj8h

Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend at University Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas when she noticed a door with a big red bag over it. “I would watch the nurses draw straws to see who would go in and check on him,” she remembers. Burks, whose cousin was gay, knew enough about AIDS to guess who the patient inside the door was -- and fears about the disease didn’t stop her from sneaking into the room. Inside, she discovered a skeletal young man desperate to see his mother before he died. When she told the nurses, “They laughed. They said, ‘Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming.’” Burks convinced the nurses to give her his mother’s number and she tried reaching out one last time time, but it was obvious his mother had no intention of coming to see her “sinful” son who she considered already dead to her. So Burks returned to the room and took his hand. “I stayed with him for 13 hours while he took his last breaths on Earth.” Burks, then 25 years old, learned how many young men were being left to die alone and often were not even being claimed for burial, she recalls thinking, "Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?” Over the next ten years, Burks estimates that she helped care for over 1,000 people dying of AIDS and even dug the graves for 40 of them herself in her family's cemetery. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/11/29/world-aids-day-2018-theme/amp/ #worldaidsday2018 #everythingyouneedtoknow #knowyourstatus #wad2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq3FdwXgh0L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pnaix4ki4qr