Issue 1: Reflecting the current realities faced by the communities we serve
- Workplace safety is paramount APCOM Covid-19 Protocol was developed and shared with our partners
- A collective call for immediate response amid COVID-19 outbreak and government lockdowns
- Community clinics in Thailand strives to provide HIV services amid COVID-19
- COVID-19 and its effects on diverse SOGIESC communities, HIV services and Key Populations
Issue 2: #CoronaAPCOMpassion launch
- APCOM staff donate salaries, creates #CoronaAPCOMpassion emergency funding
- Story from a PLHIV Organisation: An appeal from The Poz Home Center Foundation, Bangkok
- Story from Bali, Indonesia: Working on paradise island under COVID-19 lockdown: Gaya Dewata speak out
Issue 3: Community Resilience
- HIV Testing campaign turn into testing people’s compassion for Thailand’s LGBTQI and people living with HIV affected by COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 lockdown in Cambodia: Micro Rainbow Cambodia speak out
- Solidarity In The Pandemic: Story from Suara Kita, an LGBTQI organization based in Indonesia
Issue 4: Community Taking Charge
- Our Executive Director, Midnight on the ASHM Regional Advisory Group on BBVs, Sexual Health and COVID-19 in an inaugural webinar discussion on Covid-19, HIV, Sexual Health and Viral Hepatitis. What’s the new normal for the Asia Pacific?, attended by prominent leaders in Asia Pacific Region.
- Lessons about COVID-19 and standard preventive practices from the virtual learning session
- To Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Resourcefulness among Trans Women in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in the Time of Corona – transwomen in Yogyakarta established a small start-up in the challenging time of the pandemic.
- Calling on Compassion: Update on our fundraising efforts for LGBTQI and HIV community
- APCOM building better Mental Health for its staff – through a virtual mental health session facilitated by the founder of Brave Movement, Cheryl Tan.
Issue 5: Working together for a more resilient future
- Virtual Powwow with Thai LGBTQI and HIV community on the effects of COVID-19. A collective discussion attended by nearly 40 participants from Civic Society, Government and Technical Agencies on the significant effects of Covid-19 in the Thai LGBTQI and HIV community.
- The Language of Art: Part 1 Charcoal Cleansing by APCOM staff Inad Rendon
- #CoronaAPCOMpassion making compassion felt in Indonesia and Pakistan
- Looking good, feeling great: HIV prevention during lockdown. One of the most recognized underwear brands, Andrew Christian supports APCOM’s online HIV campaign.
Issue 6: How are our staff coping?
Collection of self-reflections by APCOM leadership and staff
- AIDS and COVID-19: A reflection from APCOM’s HIV/AIDS Ambassador. An inspiring reflection from the former United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoys for HIV/AIDS in Asia Pacific, J.V.R. Prasada Rao
- Crisis, Opportunity, Transition …by Dédé Oetomo, Chair of APCOM’s Regional Advisory Group
- Equipping for uncertainties: adaptive leadership in times of coronavirus
- First, I listen to fear. Then, I defeat it in detail.
- Of Project Plans and COVID-19
- My experience on accessing ARV during lockdown in Bangkok
- A Complaint Letter to COVID-19
- So Far yet so Near
- Me, myself and PrEP during the lockdown
- Jam and her housemate on COVID-19
- Coronavirus Can’t Tear Us Apart
- We remain
- Bringing Progressive Faith Voices toward Diverse Genders and Sexualities
- IDAHOTB 2020: Bridging the LGBTI Inclusion Data Gap – A panel recording to commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) 2020, organised by the Asian Development Bank, with APCOM’s SOGIESC Rights Officer, Ramil Andag on the panel.
Issue 7: Asking for Help
- Ripples of #coronaAPCOMpassion: Supporting MSM, transgender and LGBTIQ individuals, one country at a time
- The colors of ‘THB19 vs. COVID-19’: “Trying to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud”
- Indonesian Diaspora LGBTQ Group Helps Compatriots Back Home
Issue 8: Pivoting Services to the needs of the Community
- Championing PrEP in Pakistan: Dareecha forges ahead
- Adapting service delivery to meet the needs for PrEP: Vietnam example
- Supporting the most vulnerable through uncertain times: A personal story from Mumbai
- How COVID-19 is affecting community-based organisation even with low COVID-19 cases: Laos case study.
Issue 9: Boosting Voices from the Southeast Asian Community
- Thai Transman Talk Tackling COVID-19
- Confession from a Male Escort in Vietnam during COVID-19 time
- Mama Tini talk of services for transgender women in Malaysia
- Unending Discrimination for Transwomen under COVID-19 Period in Indonesia
Issue 10: Boosting Voices from the East Asian Community
- Tokyo’s LGBTQ+ Community Center Response to COVID-19
- “New Normal” in Hong Kong
- Singapore Circuit Breaker and LGBTQ+ Services
- COVID-19 its effects on NGOs in Mongolia
Issue 11: Voices from Artists in Asia Pacific
- A plea for art inclusion for Fiji’s youngest ones during fearful times
- The sound of isolation in Cambodia
- Jabar and his art—‘a place where God and mortal men meet’
- Artists challenged to enhance online sales models
- Thailand faces an incomprehensible future in many ways
- I believe giving is receiving
Issue 12: Boosting Voices from the Pacific Community
- How long will it take for things to return to “normal”?
- Advocacy during the new normal
- Saving humanity as a core mission
Issue 13: Voices from the Young People
- The impact of stigma on Indian transgender people during Covid-19
- The importance of practicing personal hygiene during the pandemic
- Thai youth calling for freedom of speech
- Interacting with people is helpful for one’s mental health
Issue 14: Voices from the South Asian Communities
- video Interview with Dr. Ezzah Riaz
- Bandhu’s service models recognized as the best practice
- video Interview with Kencho Tshering
- Helping and supporting each other for a better tomorrow
Issue 15: Voices from Transgender Women Community
- Marginalized communities in need of extra handhold support
- Experiencing self-stigma and stigmatisation by service providers in Bhutan
- video The need for COVID-19 community based preventive models
- Singapore’s unique peer and professional counselling for transgender
- video Adapting online health intervention for Thai transgenders
Issue 16: Voices from Asia PLHIV Community
- video Watch an interview with a PLHIV in Sri Lanka: Pre-plan for difficult situations to continue to support community work
- Viewing the HIV response during pandemic times as a significant life experience: Perspective from a gay man living with HIV in Malaysia
- Wishing for a greater collaboration between government, NGO’s and PLHIVs to end AIDS by 2030: A Singaporean Perspective
- Limited access to medication for Indonesian PLHIV community: A reflection from 2019 HERO Awards recipient
Issue 17: Voices from Asia LBQ Community
- video interview Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Sri Lanka
- Ly Pisey, Cambodia – Institutional policy and bureaucracy are created by people – it only requires gut and willingness to change them
- Claire de Leon – Advocating for a national legislation for LGBTQI Filipinos
- Jean Chong, Singapore – Rethinking of allocating country specific humanitarian aid
- Candy Yun, South Korea – Distributing ‘social guidelines for human dignity and equality’ to fight human rights violations
Issue 18: 2021 Calling for Compassion
- 2021 calling for Compassion, please donate to #CoronaAPCOMpassion
- Video – CoronaAPCOMpassion: COVID-19 Emergency Funding for Asia Pacific
- Briefing paper on #CoronaAPCOMpassion
Issue 19: Voices from LGBTQI, and HIV Regional Networks
- ASEAN SOGIE Caucus – Regional ASEAN LGBTQI network talks about Covid-19 in Southeast Asia
- ICWAP – Asia Pacific Women Living with HIV speaking out on Covid-19
- ILGA Asia – Regional LGBTI Association experience and responses to Covid-19
- YVC – Making Youth Voices Count in time of Covid-19!
Issue 20: Discrimination Day 2021
Issue 21: Transmen Voices for International Transgender Day of Visibility 2021
- Hong Kong – Kaspar Wan
- India – Aryan Pasha
- Indonesia – Raiz
- Japan – Mika Yakushi
- The Philippines – AR
Issue 22 – 1st Anniversary of APCOM’s Special Series on the COVID-19 Effect
Issue 23 – Community Clinics
- Community clinics helping key population through COVID-19 pandemic: Malaysia
- Community clinics helping key population through COVID-19 pandemic: Singapore
- COVID-19 in Thailand, Clinics Dealing with a Third Wave
Issue 24 – COVID-19 Vaccine for All?
- Thai LGBTQI group discuss Covid-19 vaccine access in midst of third wave
- Inoculated and Living with HIV: Indonesia
- Inoculated and Living with HIV: Thailand
- COVID-19 vaccination, HIV and priority populations in our region: What’s needed?
Issue 25 – Staff Reflect on their Third Lockdown
- From Bhutan to Bangkok – finding a job and a boyfriend
- Four weeks and some thoughts
- My Third Covid-19 Lockdown Experience
- Gotta Make it Work in These Unprecedented Times
- Be Kinder to Yourself
- A Love Story During Covid-19
- Lucky to be in lockdown with a friend (and a dog)
Issue 26 – Surviving Covid-19
- Surviving Covid-19 in India as Trans person
- Surviving Covid-19 in the Big Mango
- Corpses of Corona: Courageous Bangladeshi Transgender Woman Leading the Burial Service
- Indian LGBTQ and COVID-19 Vaccination
- #Qtalks: Online Support for PLHIVs during pandemic
Issue 27 – C19RM and Meaningful Community Engagement
- Bangladesh – Bandhu Social Welfare Society
- Indonesia – GWL-INA
- Mongolia – Youth for Health
- Nepal – Blue Diamond Society
Issue 28 – Remembering this time last year
- ALFO survey: LGBTI individuals in Oceania struggle with multitude of Covid19 related challenges
- Fiji COVID-19 Pandemic Situation and Responses from the Government and Civil Society
- Gay Paradise During Covid-19 at Bangkok’s Silom Soi 4
Issue 29 – 2nd Anniversary of APCOM’s Special Series on the COVID-19 Effect
- Urban Green Fingers: tranquility you can create
- Stay Safe and Get Creative with DIY Mask Strap
- Home cooked meals during Covid-19: try cooking some Thai dishes!
- Keeping body and mind in shape: exercising during lockdown
- Driving depression away
