2012_21

XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Memory session of the AIDS activist Robert Carr, discussing the discrimination of women, men who have sex with men, sex workers and drug users as well as people living with HIV/AIDS. The Director of AIDS Free World, Stephen Lewis, holds a speech about Robert Carr as a human rights activist and as a friend. Rebecca Schleifer from the Human Rights Watch talks about stigma and self-stigma as a person living with HIV. Cheryl Overs tells a personal story about being discriminated, as being a sex workers activist an a former sex worker, during the PEPFAR anti-prostitution pledge in 2005, and how Robert Carr supported her after that traumatic experience.