Southern Time Band

(A CA BAND WHO ASSISTS PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV)

There are more than 38 million people across the globe living with
HIV/AIDS, out of which 36.2 million are adults and 1.8 million are children,
under the age of fifteen.

While the rate of new HIV diagnoses has been falling steadily over the
decades, it remains critical that we keep talking about it – particularly given
the fact that nearly one million die globally from AIDS every year because
of many reasons, and HIV stigma is a critical one.

Learning that you are HIV-positive can be one of the most difficult
experiences, when you may feel scared, sad, or even angry, and it is
completely natural to cope with something that can be life-changing.

It’s the stage of life when following a treatment plan and attending medical
appointments, sharing the diagnosis with sexual partners, and facing HIV
stigma and discrimination becomes a key aspect of living.

But remember, HIV doesn’t mean an end of living a long, happy, and
fulfilling life.

One can now manage a full life living with HIV if they have access to
effective, affordable, and consistent HIV antiretroviral treatment.

Because of the scientifically-verified fact of “U=U,” if a person’s HIV viral

load is undetectable, the virus is untransmutable, even while having
unprotected sex. Today, people living with HIV can even bear children
without infecting them!
Despite advances in treatment, reductions in risk, and increased
awareness, people living with HIV are discriminated against by society and
their own families.

Several organizations are fighting for the rights of these people and
Southern Time Productions​ is one of them.

STP is an exemplary music and video production and social innovator

company, whose inception was done to help meet ​UNAIDS’s goals of
ending AIDS by 2030​.

Beethoven once said, “​Music can change the world​,” and so does STP.

They have concocted a laudable band, STB whose compelling stories and
musical artwork can trigger a fight against poor healthcare management
and absurd HIV stigmas prevailing in our society.

Southern Time Band is a “21st Century Social Classical” rock opera band
from Toronto, Canada, who aims at the creation of a ‘psychedelic
jazzy-classical musical art-rock’.

The band has been performing globally since 2005, intending to make
unique, profound, and long-lasting popular music that will feed one's
imagination and inspire hope.

STB believes that music brings about the possibility of such an idealistic
utopia that can heal, break down barriers and borders, and reconcile
humanity’s brokenness.

Music has the power to move us and influence opinions but today’s music
does not seem to have the same earth-moving, society shaping effects as
that of the past.

The anti-apartheid and government-challenging lyrics have largely been

exchanged for party-hard, live-the-rich-life lyrics.
There are, however, still musicians and singers who believe that their
words will inspire change and one such troupe is STB.

They seek to change the world's disparate access to healthcare and ingrain
its importance within each individual and government through their art.

Southern Time's cinematic release, '​The Southern Time Tetralogy​,' is a

four-part musical docudrama that portrays ​T​, the lead singer, and the
Founder of Southern Time Productions.

The tetralogy will debut in 2021 and funding received through this project
will be used to find solutions on how to reduce HIV and AIDS.

You can also be associated with a notable charitable project that will
improve many underprivileged and underserved lives through donations.

Packed with music, art, and entertainment, the story illustrates how T
acquired HIV, what living with it has been like for him, and of the social and
spiritual insights he gained because of having both HIV and AIDS.

The struggles of being HIV positive and the stigma and discrimination
attached to it are what STB wants to make the world see, hear, and feel.

The movie is made to hearten empathy, compassion, and understanding

for all human beings.

Their music work in the film, including the tetralogy's overture album, '​Lost
In Love No More​,' is out now!