Surviving Voices Mini-Documentary: Substance Users, Recovery Community and AIDS

The National AIDS Memorial Surviving Voices mini-documentary "Substance Users, the Recovery Community & AIDS" focuses the camera on the unique challenges of HIV/AIDS faced by this community. Through personal stories of survival, the film powerfully captures the journey of AIDS advocates and those of individual survivors living with HIV/AIDS who have struggled simultaneously with the disease of addiction, in raw, honest and forthright conversations. It depicts their individual strength, power, hope and resilience, the importance of community, spirit, self-respect, and the will to live with dignity and pride. It also shows their vulnerabilities, the shame, denial, stigma, and hopelessness they have experienced. For more info go to: www.aidsmemorial.org/surviving-voices. (Produced in 2020, Released in 2021)