Charity Film Awards
Charity Film Awards

Naz Project London (Naz)
Love Ends Stigma

Film & Campaign Description

We invited seven people living with HIV and their loved ones to have an honest, intimate conversation about their relationship while navigating the HIV journey.

Through our short film Love Ends Stigma, we want to show the world how powerful love, support, and acceptance are in dismantling the stigma surrounding HIV. When people living with HIV are embraced by those closest to them, HIV becomes part of the life journey, not a barrier to living freely, joyfully, and with dignity.

Stigma ends where empathy begins.

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HIV is our biggest public health success story, but stigma stands in the way of ending the epidemic.

Zero HIV Stigma Day is a global grassroots campaign dedicated to ending the stigma around HIV through awareness, education, visibility, and action. We know that to end new transmissions of HIV and to ensure people living with HIV can live safely and freely, we must end stigma once and for all. Stigma remains the single greatest barrier to ending HIV, undermining testing, treatment, and care, while fuelling fear, silence, and systemic exclusion.

Observed on 21 July, the birthday of the trailblazing HIV and gender equality activist Prudence Mabele who was one of the first Black South African women to publicly share her HIV status. This day honours her legacy and the countless HIV activists who have fundamentally changed how we treat and care for those living with and affected by HIV, while celebrating and uplifting those who continue the fight against stigma.

UN Sustainable Development Goal

3. Good Health And Well-Being

Naz Project London (Naz)

NAZ is a London-based sexual health and wellbeing charity dedicated to reducing sexual health inequalities within Global Majority and marginalised communities. With over 30 years’ experience, we provide culturally specific interventions across London, supporting communities disproportionately affected by poor sexual, reproductive, and HIV health outcomes.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

We align with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: