The HIV Story Project launches Generations HIV Online Video Archive – a Digital Media AIDS Quilt for the 21st Century.
THE HIV Story Project, a San Francisco-based non-profit organisation focused on bridging HIV/AIDS with film, media and storytelling to fight global stigma associated with the disease, have launched a new online video GenerationsHIV.org archive that will feature 1,000+ testimonials about HIV/AIDS by people from all walks of life.
Five years in the making, GENERATIONS HIV is a “Digital Media AIDS Quilt for the 21st Century,” and it is poised to become the most comprehensive video platform on the Internet about HIV/AIDS.
Marc Smolowitz, executive producer and co-founder of The HIV Story Project, said: “As we enter the 35th year of the global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, people are now living longer, and our stories are becoming more nuanced, complex, and challenging,”
“Now more than ever, the need for powerful storytelling programs remains paramount to any HIV/AIDS community building strategy. Our hope is that the GenerationsHIV.org will emerge as a gathering place for all of us to recall, remember and look ahead to the future.”
The launch of the archive was made with community leaders, project partners and HIV/AIDS activists on the steps of San Francisco City Hall symbolically on June 5, the day thirty four years ago in 1981, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported the first case of AIDS in the United States and National HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day.
The GENERATIONS HIV archive is co-presented by the Office of San Francisco Supervisor Wiener, National AIDS Memorial Grove, and Let’s Kick ASS (AIDS Survivor Syndrome) and involves many supporters, including partnering with 30+ HIV/AIDS funders and nonprofits to bring the storytelling booth into places and spaces that serve diverse and underserved communities.
Scott Wiener, San Francisco District 8 Supervisor, who attended the launch event, said: “Four decades into the global AIDS pandemic, HIV/AIDS still affects millions of people every day, particularly the LGBT community here in San Francisco.”
“The Generations HIV Archive provides a unique interactive platform for experiencing the history, impact of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic and the countless stories that need to continue being told.”
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