WHO:
Film subject, recording artist and AIDS activist Thomas Muchimba Buttenschøn; Doin' My Drugs Documentary director Tyler Q Rosen; Kevin Osborne, Executive Director, the International AIDS Society (www.iasociety.org); Charlotte Sector, Multimedia Communications Manager, United Nations (ONU) UNAIDS
WHAT:
Swiss Premiere Screening of Doin' My Drugs film in Geneva followed by discussion: HIV: 40 years Later, Discrimination Still Kills, with panelists Buttenschøn, Rosen, and Osborne; Charlotte Sector, moderator.
WHEN:
Doin' My Drugs Screening: 1 March 2020, 11.00h
WHERE:
Cinéma CINÉRAMA EMPIRE, Rue de Carouge 72-74 Geneva. Admission Free; all ages.
A father to two young children, Buttenschøn has kept his HIV in check and his family virus-free, by "doin' his drugs." He recognized that his native Zambia remains trapped in a horrific and senseless AIDS crisis. While a significant percentage of the population there is infected with HIV, many antiretroviral drug treatment programs that keep the virus dormant - "a near-zero viral load" as Buttenschøn says - are widely available through government programs for free.
