ENDURING CARE at the International AIDS Conference

As part of the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Visual AIDS presents a free screening of ENDURING CARE in the Global Village.

Scientific breakthroughs and medical treatments are key to the AIDS response, but pharmaceuticals alone won't end the epidemic.

ENDURING CARE celebrates the perseverance of people living with HIV while examining how medicine and healthcare can be painful, harmful, and difficult to access.

The program features short videos by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad and Uriah Bussey, Beto Pérez, Steed Taylor, and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project.

The screening is free and open to the general public. Registration for the AIDS Conference is not required!

In ENDURING CARE, viewers hear from long-term survivors about the side-effects and medical issues that can come from decades of HIV medication. They meet queer and trans activists in Mexico who confront a corrupt healthcare system that fails to provide life-saving medication to people living with HIV. They witness the bold tactics of people of color HIV workers in Philadelphia who call out how AIDS organizations can perpetuate stigma and harm even as they purport to provide care. Viewers see the collective vision of a group of women living with HIV in Taiwan who use sound and video to reflect on the stigma and fear they face, hear about young people living with HIV in Puerto Rico making space to connect, and experience the activation of an archive of writing by incarcerated women.