PROOF OF ITS POTENCY

MAKE ART/STOP AIDS allowed people from all over the world to think about HIV in another way. Thousands of people came across the two exhibitions during the week, allowing much needed conversation about HIV to take place. (What was even more exciting was hearing HIV talked about in different languages.)
For some, it was a moving experience. There were many young folks who may have never met anyone who was HIV-positive. Meeting Historias Positivas participants changed what it was like to be a person with HIV, while ArtMoves surely gave researchers and scientists at the conference a more colorful and creative view of AIDS.

As a proof of its potency, MAKE ART/STOP AIDS staff had their hands full answering questions on how these exhibitions can be done in other countries. In fact, showings at Brazil and South Africa are in the works.

This was the first time MAKE ART/STOP AIDS made its presence felt in a formal sense at the International AIDS Conference, a monumental event that takes place every other year. By all accounts, it was an incredible success. In the words of Alejandro Brito Lemus “The impact of the exhibitions went beyond Mexico. It reached people from others parts of the world”

The next conference will be in Vienna, 2010.