Draw attention on the acts of prejudice and intolerance affecting people living with HIV.

The Zero Discrimination Day  aims to draw attention to acts of prejudice and intolerance still affecting people worldwide. In 2015, Armenian Americans in California demonstration held a "die-in" to remember the victims of the Armenian genocide.



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