2023 marks 40 years since the discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Over the last four decades, AIDS has spread throughout the world and remains a pandemic to this day.
Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) is collaborating with a public theatre in Tokyo to put on a Japanese production of the Broadway award-winning play, “The Inheritance,” which tells the story of three generations of gay people and their day-to-day joys, love, and struggles with HIV/AIDS and discrimination.
To commemorate this play’s production in Japan, FGFJ held a public seminar in Tokyo, Japan ahead of World AIDS Day on November 30, 2023. The seminar brought together the leading actor of the play and a mixture of Japanese and overseas HIV experts and representatives of the HIV community to shed light on HIV, gender, and LGBTQ+ issues and also raise awareness about Japan’s engagement with the Global Fund.