Marathon of public events on health during the HIV epidemic

Date

Schedule

16:30–21:30

DESCRIPTION

On World AIDS Day, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art invites the public to discuss issues associated with the spread of HIV.

According to the Russian Federal Research and Methodology Center for the Prevention of AIDS, as of June 30, 2020 over a million people in Russia were living with HIV. This statistic confirms that HIV is one of the most serious issues Russia is facing today, which is why Garage has joined the campaign to combat the spread of the virus.

A number of journalists have pointed out that the theme of HIV and AIDS appears to have been dropped from the media agenda and is only brought up when a scandal or a serious conflict occurs. There is little regular coverage of the issue. Discrimination against people living with HIV remains a problem: many are stigmatized because of limited public understanding of the virus, the way it is spread and treated, and what can be done to help people living with HIV.

The marathon of public events is the Museum’s first step toward developing a program of regular events for the prevention of the spread of HIV. Topics discussed will include the specific nature of the spread of the virus, statistics, ways of preventing its spread, and HIV as a cultural phenomenon that has changed contemporary art.

HOW TO TAKE PART

Events will take place on Zoom and will be broadcast on YouTube.
The video will be accessible to deaf and hard of hearing viewers.

Schedule

Talk: Everything You Need to Know about HIV

Speaker

Sofia Komissarova is Communications Consultant for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at UNAIDS.

Time
16:30–17:30

Talk: Stigmatization of People Living with HIV

Speaker

Nikolai Lunchenkov is an infectious disease specialist at H-Clinic and an international sexual health consultant.

Time
17:30–18:30

Discussion: How to Talk to Teenagers about Their Health

Speakers

Elizaveta Tokareva is a medical psychologist and curator of projects for the charitable foundation Children+.

Alfia Maksutova is a community manager at the project DVOR, science journalist, candidate of philology, co-author of the books Eto tochno. Chertova dyuzhina komiksov o nauke i uchenykh (This is for Sure. A Damn Dozen Comics about Science and Scientists) and Bagi vzrosleniya. Vlad (Coming of Age Bugs. Vlad).

Yulia Plakhutina is a UNESCO National Associate Project Officer in Health Education.

Moderator

Alexandra Bochaver holds a candidate of psychological sciences degree and is a researcher at the Center for Research into Contemporary Childhood of the Institute of Education at the Higher School of Economics. She is the director of the project "Country of Trolls or Not" for the NGO Perekrestok Plus.

Time
18:30–20:00