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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I'm Mony Pen.

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I'm 32 years old.

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I live in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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And I have been activists
for eight years.

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I become the activist.

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First, I'm a person
living with HIV.

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And now I'm peer educator
to a new ed activist,

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called Miss Prum Dalish.

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My name is Dalish.

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And I am 27 years old.

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I'm working for the
Cambodian Community of Women

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Living with HIV.

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And I have been living
with HIV for 12 years.

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The HIV prevalence in Cambodia
right now is going down

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and the number of [INAUDIBLE]
HIV who are on the medication

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is increasing.

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But we are facing
the second wave

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amongst the most at-risk
population, including

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men who have sex with men,
drug users, and sex worker.

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This area is so very poor
area in Phnom Penh, where

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there are a lot sex
workers who are also

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HIV positive living here with
very bad living conditions.

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And also the environment, the
sanitation also is not so good.

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I brought Dalish
to this area today

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in order to introduce her to
the woman support group here.

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And also it's kind of
an opportunity for her

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as an activist to learn
what is the living

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condition of the women
in the community,

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so that she can learn
more about the issue.

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And then she can like build a
closer relationship and also

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confidence for the future.

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Mony is very, very good leader,
as I use to learn from her,

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and she always guide me.

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And she always tell me about
the difficulty in this area.

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We do not discriminate.

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And they are sex worker,
but also they are woman.

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And they're also
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So we feel like we have the
heart, the same feeling.

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That's why we try to
enroll them in our program.

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And also, we talk
about the human rights,

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the women's rights,
and how do to stand up,

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and how to empower ourself
to be like a speaker,

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to be a leader in like
even in your small group.

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I'm Ricardo Barush.

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I'm from Mexico.

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I'm 27 years old.

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And I'm working on
different issues

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of sexual protective health,
particularly HIV prevention

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among young people.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Today we had the
walking to remember

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people who have died of AIDS.

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As a gay man, HIV is
something that it's always

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been close, very close to me,
because I have many friends who

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are living with HIV.

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I have friends who have died.

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In Mexico, five of every six
people who are living with HIV

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are men, which shows how
men who have sex with men

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are affected by the epidemic.

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We're in Amberes Street.

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This is where the gay area
in Mexico City starts,

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the Zona Rosa.

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It's difficult to
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because a lot of times people
who come here to Zona Rosa

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do have the information,
the knowledge, the condoms,

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the tools, but there's something
there that is not working.

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So like we don't know
exactly what it is.

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But that's why we need
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like a comprehensive
response to HIV.

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My name is Andrea Bergstrom.

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I'm 26 and living in
Stockholm, Sweden.

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I am the international
coordinator of Stockholm Pride.

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It's a festival for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender,

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and queer people.

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And I'm an activist.

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One of the persons who really
inspires me as an activist

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is Steve.

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He has lived with
HIV since 1987.

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He's a friend.

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Steve has a long
career as an activist.

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And you can really feel his
commitment to the issues.

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And also, you can
feel the passion.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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What I found so beautiful
with your book inside

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it is that you give a voice to
people who otherwise would not

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have been heard.

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That's very nice to hear,
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my intention when
I did this book.

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This is one of my favorite
photos, wide open doors.

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And I believe in
open communication.

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It's so important when
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that you are inclusive.

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My voice as a young LGBT
activists in Sweden,

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I have been heard.

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But when I look at my friends
in some parts of the world,

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I can see that their
voice is not heard at all.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I'm working for the
rights of LGBT people,

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because I have a personal
connection to the issues

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and also because I think that
LGBT rights are human rights.

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And human rights is
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should apply for
everyone in the world.

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In the summer of 2009, I
had the great experience

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of receiving four LGBT
activists from Uganda

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that visited Stockholm Pride.

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I'll call myself an
activist because I

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try to make lives of
other gay people better.

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When I first meeting
[BEEP] I was amazed

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by the braveness and the
inspiration that he has in him

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despite the homophobic
society HE lives in.

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When I see this movie, and
especially this interview

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with [BEEP] who is now
a dear friend of mine,

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I still cry to some
parts, because this was

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a really strong moment for me.

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Homophobia is connected to
HIV and AIDS, and by the fact

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that you can't protect
yourself if you are not

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accepted within your society.

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As an activist, some
days I'm really happy

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and some days I'm only angry.

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I want to change
things to do better.

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And that's what keeps me going.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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I am Mary-Jane Matsolo.

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I am 29 years old.

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I come from Cape Town in the
Western Cape, South Africa.

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I work for the Treatment
Action Campaign.

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I also work full Ground
Up as a journalist.

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And my job involves
being first and foremost

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an activist and secondly
everything else.

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Ground Up is an online
media publication

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with the sole
purpose of reporting

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on social issues that never get
to make it on the mainstream

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media.

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What do we do at
Ground Up is that we

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give the voiceless a platform.

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I got the opportunity to visit
a township just outside Durban,

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called kawMakhutha.

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This township has one of
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of HIV and AIDS in the country.

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Here, more than 40% of
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of 15 to 49 years old
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We are going to meet
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that come from the
Treatment Action Campaign.

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And we're going to find out
about the remarkable work

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that they are doing in trying to
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scourge.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Is it a difficult
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as a teenage girl in this area?

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Yeah.

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Why do you say that?

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There's a lot of
pressure in everything,

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like the person you are.

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Lot of them don't
have self-esteem.

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A major contribution factor to
the high HIV prevalence rate

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right here is the fact that
the young girls right here

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don't have enough
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to make their own decisions.

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And also, the young men are
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the importance of safe sex.

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And that puts them
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to teenage pregnancies and
being infected with HIV.

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I'm Christopher Barnhill.

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I'm 25 years old,
live in Washington DC.

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And I support young people in
the fight against HIV and AIDS

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by working with Metro Teen AIDS.

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I was born with HIV.

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And when I really realized
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it can be a little depressing.

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You know, I do think about, OK,
like what will my fate will be.

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I do think about, oh, my
god, not another pill.

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I do think about, oh, my
god, not another illness.

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But although I think
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it does not allow me
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I believe that I'm here for.

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And it doesn't allow me to
stop thinking about like life,

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you know.

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The AIDS epidemic in
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we are number one
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rated city in the country.

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And they compare our rates to
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which is what is
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But it's also
influences the work

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that I do at Metro
Teen AIDS and the work

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that many other
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So right now in Anacostia
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This is Ward 8.

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It's considered one of the
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for HIV and AIDS.

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The highest wards in DC
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Why is it so?

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It's so because of
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like unemployment
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failing education system.

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I think the most
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just like educate,
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and being of service to them.

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That's our mission is to
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to HIV and reproductive health.

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That's our mission.

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And our goal to is to support
young people, whether they are

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infected with HIV or affected.

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Today I bring Dalish
to visit the drug user

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in the drop in center.

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So I think it's very
important to learn about there

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situation as the drug user.

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After we spent three hours
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we learned a lot from them.

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And then we face like the
same problem, discrimination.

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So we shared the
experience, and we found out

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we have a similar experience.

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This is the first time for me.

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And today I have been
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who use the drug and
some people here also

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the people living with HIV.

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I would like to change the
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and the woman in this country,
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I can see the gap
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Men at this level.

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And woman at this level.

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That's why like a
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they still become
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Here, is the income
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for woman living with HIV.

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And I think it's very
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can bring the women together.

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It is very important to have a
job for women living with HIV.

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Because if they go
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they cannot find a job.

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If they knew their
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might discriminate them.

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So they are here to
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I want to empower
women living with HIV

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can be mentally all right.

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And I can tell them to
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For the future, I would
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they are looking together
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with solidarity,
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Right now, we're going
to have about training

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for young activists
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on sexual and reproductive
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And I'm going to be talking
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on the HIV movement in Mexico
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can be done.

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I think it's important to
renew HIV activism in Mexico,

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because we also need new
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about how to address
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This is a National Institute
of Public Health, one

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of the main research
institutions in this country

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on health issues.

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And this is where I'm doing
my masters on public health.

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I'm an activist,
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it's important to have good
theoretical basis in order

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to improve the things
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So that's why I decided
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in public health, because
then I could combine research

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and action, which I think
it's something that we really

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need in Mexico.

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Julio Frenk who was the
founder of this institute,

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he's a great role model for me,
because he did a lot of things

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to improve sexual and
reproductive health in Mexico

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when he was the
Minister of Health.

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One of the great
accomplishments of AIDS

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was it led to the largest
mobilization of public opinion

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and civil society
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in human history, and probably
around almost any issue.

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AIDS, the fight against AIDS
became a social movement.

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And that movement is there
is there to build on.

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I think nowadays there
should be a lot of attention

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on most at-rick
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men who have sex with
men, drug users, sex

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workers, because
sometimes we are left out

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from the main strategies
on HIV prevention.

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These young men have
just explained to me

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the difficulties that they
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And that is one of
the most contributing

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factors to the high rate of
HIV and AIDS in this area.

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So these young men
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They've got nothing to do.

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They make a living
through washing cars

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every now and again.

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I feel saddened by
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have in one, beautiful country,
South Africa, that we have

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two different types of world.

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We have the world where
everybody has it all.

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They can access everything.

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And then there's the world
that is stricken by poverty.

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The youth feel that the
future is looking very bleak.

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These are the type of stories
that Ground Up is always

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looking for, the
social justice stories,

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the stories that never get
to see the light of day

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in the mainstream media.

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The experience from kawMakhutha.

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Has shown me that
there is definitely

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a strong need for activism,
because through activism we

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can ensure that these people
get the necessary services

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that they are entitled to.

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Through activism we can ensure
that their right to health

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and human dignity is fulfilled.

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So my hero is Phill Wilson
of the Black AIDS Institute.

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And it's because I just believe
in the work that he does.

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And I see the work he does.

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And it's like it is impacting
not just nationally,

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but internationally.

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And that's a powerful
influence to have.

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I'm really excited to be here.

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And I'm thrilled
to be able to see

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what goes on at Metro Teens.

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At this point, when I
think about my life,

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and I was infected when
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And I'm now 56.

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So I've been infected for
a very long period of time.

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So to have a role model
like Phill of the Black AIDS

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Institute is it
just reminds me--

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it's kind of like looking
at myself into the future.

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And it's like, wow,
would that be me?

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Being able to speak on his
level and to do the amazing work

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that he does, it just allows
me to work for something.

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One of the reasons
why I'm so thrilled

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about every time I have an
encounter with someone that's

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young in the fight
is kind of a belief

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that, in fact, we can
end the AIDS epidemic,

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you know, particularly given
the disproportionate impact

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and the burden that
young people carry around

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the HIV/AIDS epidemic
today, and particularly now

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young, black people.

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Pretty much right
now we're getting

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ready to do some
street outreach.

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Street outreach is very
important to the work

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that we do.

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This is how we connect
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And this is how we
just pretty much spread

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the message of HIV testing.

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How old are you?

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I'm 18 years old.

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I used to go to school across
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School.

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And before I went there I
didn't know anything regarding

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sexual health, period.

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But after I went
there, Metro Teen AIDS

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is like almost across
the street from it.

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I went down there and I learned
about how much I didn't know.

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And ever since then, it's been
my mission to empower people

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to know the things.

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Metro Teen AIDS is a
nonprofit about stopping

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the spread HIV and AIDS
throughout Washington DC.

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So we do things like
HIV 101s, STI 101s,

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pass out free condoms, you
know, things like that.

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Chris is definitely
a role model for me.

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One thing about
Chris, he's always,

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always poised in situations,
He's very outgoing.

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But when it's time
to get serious,

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he keeps his
composure very well.

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And I really admire
that about him.

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It's very important to
reach out to young people.

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It's probably like one of the
most important things you do.

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Young people are the future.

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And we've got to
invest into the future.

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We really have to
invest into their lives.

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Young people have the
power to change the world.

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