Rights Here, Right Now, International AIDS Conference 2010

January 7, 2010

A report from the XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria

In the weeks since the Black AIDS Institute’s delegation of journalists, activists and people living with HIV/AIDS left the International AIDS
Conference (IAC) in Vienna Austria, I’ve been sorting, filtering and putting into perspective our experiences and memories of the week.

By the end of the conference we were exhausted, but we were also extremely inspired. I don’t think I was alone in wishing every Black person
in America could have participated in this year’s IAC gathering. Many of the major findings and stories of this year’s conference were about Black people. It was, if you will “the Year of the Black.”

The purpose of this report is to share with you as many of the highlights of the Vienna conference as the pages of this report will allow.