The Banyan Tree Project is a national campaign to stop HIV/AIDS-related stigma in Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) communities.

HIV/AIDS anti-stigma campaign in Chinese and Vietnamese communities in San Francisco Bay Area

(San Francisco, April 25 2005)

One mind opened One heart touched One life changed

Download HIV/AIDS Anti-Stigma Campaign Poster

Thanks to the HIV/AIDS Anti-Stigma Initiative, funded by the Ford Foundation and administered by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), A&PI Wellness Center will launch an anti-stigma campaign targeting the Chinese community of San Francisco in May 2005. The campaign will include news paper advertisements, bus shelter posters, and documentary film featuring local Chinese community leaders who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; queer; living with HIV; and family members.

For information about A&PI Wellness Center's Ford Foundation grant and the campaign's origins, see our press release.

We are grateful for the support of our community advisory board members -Claudine Cheng, Maria Su, Mai-Nhung Le, Steven Lew, Xin Feng Lin, Kek Tee Lim, Weiyi Shi, and Dee Dee Nguyen -- whose insight and avid participation have enabled us to launch this campaign.

Information about AED's HIV/AIDS Anti-Stigma Initiative: www.hivaidsstigma.org.

Learn about the first annual National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on May 19, 2005, sponsored by San Francisco-based Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center in partnership with community organizations in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, and Boston.

To sign a pledge against HIV-related stigma: http://www.banyantreeproject.org/pdf/Pledge.pdf

For more information contact:
http://www.banyantreeproject.org/

Back to Top