Celebrating Successes while Continuing Our Fight for Rights U =U Campaign and more

Abstract

Prelude As a cis-, queer Asian settler immigrant originating in Hong Kong, a mental health consumer and a person who used and injecteddrugs, a poz (person living with HIV) HIV activist who now resides in theunceded Dish With One Spoon Territory on Turtle Island/TorontoCanada, and a co-founder of Ontario Positive Asians (OPA+), anindependent network of East, Southeast, South and West Asians livingwith HIV the Greater Toronto Area and the province of Ontario to create apeer-led culturally-safe space for the diasporic community. It is with greathonour that we were invited to pen an experiential commentary for Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality & Culture's special issue: ‘Alternative Sexual Identities, Expressions, and Lives-A Global Dialogue’. The outcome of thisprocess is a multi-national partnership between people living with HIV todocument a genuinely global grassroots movement, Undetectable =Untransmittable (U=U), where the bravery and efforts of South Asianactivists are acknowledged and celebrated.