{"id":6633,"date":"2013-02-06T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/hclu-video-advocacy-training-2012-alumni-are-successfully-making-videos\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:53:05","slug":"hclu-video-advocacy-training-2012-alumni-are-successfully-making-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/hclu-video-advocacy-training-2012-alumni-are-successfully-making-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLU Video Advocacy Training 2012 alumni are successfully making videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The HCLU organised a video training in May 2012<\/a> to teach 14 harm reduction and drug policy activists how to use video in activism. Now we have selected some of the movies they have made.<\/p>\n

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When we prepared for our largest training to date, we had one serious concern: What if we do our best, teach the trainees how they can film, edit and distribute movies, even give them cameras, but at the end they don’t use these skills? I have to say we were relieved and happy, when new movies made by the 2012 HCLU VAT<\/a> trainees started to come in. Many of these are only in Russian or other foreign languages, but still we decided to show them.<\/p>\n

\"\"Fortunately one of the best is subtitled to English. This movie is about rapid HIV testing in the Leningrad region titled “Discover your HIV status, be sure!” It was made by Natalia Utrovskaya<\/strong>, Mass media Officer of the E.V.A. (Equity.Verity.Advocacy.) network<\/a>. E.V.A is “the first Russian network of women affected by HIV and other socially significant diseases.”\u00a0The Leningrad region is one of the fastest growing areas in terms of the spread of the HIV epidemic in Russia. Anonymous and accurate rapid HIV testing in a van was carried out in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region.<\/div>\n
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This project is a very important resource for drug users in the Leningrad region, as they didn’t have any documents and didn’t previously know that they had free access to ARV therapy. Letting drug users know their status is very important in HIV prevention work. Through the video they can become informed about the services available to them.\u00a0Many more videos of the E.V.A network can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\"\"Natalia also worked together with Aleksandr Ezdakov<\/strong>, from the \u201cPatients in Control<\/a>\u201d movement which aims to exert pressure on decision-makers in the field of access to medicines for HIV-positive people. They made a movie titled “HIV and Tuberculosis” and the project was very successful. It is only available in Russian language so far. \u00a0Aleksandr has made movies on his own, one for journalists about how to write about HIV<\/a>, and another one about the importance of receiving Antiretroviral therapy<\/a> (ART).<\/div>\n
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\"\"Ivan Varentsov<\/strong>, from the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) produced eleven short messages at the AIDS HUB meeting in Kiev. People who use drugs, and sex workers, could not attend the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington if they declared their status, because due to a still-remaining travel restriction, people belonging to these two groups can not enter the “Land of the Free”. <\/a>Drug user activists who gathered at the meeting sent their messages to the conference in video instead. These messages were played on several occasions, \u00a0often by Michel Kazatchkine, former head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, now the UN Secretary General\u2019s Special Envoy on HIV\/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The eleven videos can be viewed here.<\/a><\/div>\n
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We produced one together, that you can watch here:<\/div>\n
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\"\"Alexander Delphinov<\/strong> is a poet and activist, who makes videos for the Andrey Rylkof Foundation (ARF) in Russia. The ARF is the only NGO that provides clean needles for drug users in Moscow. (You can watch our movie about them, entitled \u201cGiving Hope\u201d here<\/a>) Sasha produced several short drug policy related movies in Russian, that you can find on ARF’s Vimeo channel<\/a>. He often uses songs and poems in his works, that you can see for example here, when they rap about police in Russia:<\/div>\n
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And a video message by Alexander with Michel Kazatchkine<\/p>\n