Name: World AIDS Day ‘HIV Blind Date - Access to trans healthcare Special’
Start: 2024-12-01T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-01T22:30:00+00:00
Location: Rich Mix London

$World AIDS Day \u2018HIV Blind Date - Access to trans healthcare Special\u2019$

‘HIV Blind Date’ is a theatre show for people living with HIV to share the realities of life, love and struggle.
This year on World AIDS Day we raise awareness of HIV stigma and the barriers to healthcare and wellbeing that the trans HIV+ community face.
Utilising ‘Blind Date’’’s well-known format, the show exposes the lived realities of people living with HIV and HEP C’s love lives, fears and hopes. This is to raise awareness of HIV stigma and the barriers to healthcare and wellbeing that the trans HIV+ community face.
The show offers a template to combine dance, performance, live music, stunts and spoken word to tell true life stories of people living with and affected by the virus.
Ticket prices - £3 solidarity, £5 unwaged, £10 waged
Testimonials
"Trans healthcare in the UK is a mess - gargantuan waiting lists, 1000 hoops to jump through, and no guarantees you'll get the care you need. Even outside of gender affirming care, we face confused professionals who don't understand our bodies, stigma, misinformation, and even refusal of care. This all leads to trans people feeling completely alienated by the medical system, making us less likely to seek treatment and support for any reason. Given we're more at risk of acquiring HIV/HEP than many other groups, this is disastrous. We're being let down as a community and things have to change!
HIV Blind Date has always shone a light on the realities of people living and loving with HIV/HEP. It's the perfect time to look at how this intersects with the trans experience and I couldn't be more stoked to be involved!" Jack Wakely, ACT UP London
“People living with HIV are terribly impacted by mental health problems, according to Positive Voices research by PHE: 40% of people with HIV have received a mental health diagnosis, and loneliness and isolation have been identified as critical issues
affecting the quality of life. The cuts which have caused the closure of so many HIV social support services, mean that many people are facing mental health crisis alone with no hope of accessing life saving support.” Silvia Petretti, CEO, Positively UK
ACT UP! FIGHT AIDS! until there is Healthcare for All!
Thank you to @coniglibianchi for the design.
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