global village

The Nigerians sitting behind me on the early morning bus ride to Centro Banamex passionately debated human rights for commercial sex workers and men who have sex with men. 

Others on the bus shuffled papers and thumbed the program book in preparation for their long day ahead.

Today is my last day in Mexico City and I'm tired and filled with emotions.   read more »

I’ve spent the day at the Global Village, the cultural area of the AIDS conference, visiting booths and seeing what they have to offer delegates and visitors who come to the open area of the conference for the day.

At TheCondomProject.org booth I joined the droves of people who huddle around the tables to make condom lapel pins by sticking pieces of handmade paper in a variety of colors and patterns onto a colorful condom inside its wrapper, adding a pin-back and displaying it to all.

After that, in the Women's Networking Zone, Maya taught two other women and myself how to use a female condom, in a friendly and professional manner, and during the whole process she encouraged our questions while prompting us to take as many as we needed to try them out.

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