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You Know Different - Youth HIV Social Marketing Campaign
This is the first national social marketing campaign to increase HIV testing among youth and young adults. The Campaign specifically targets African American youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ).

HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
On May 18th what will you be doing? Why not wear a red AIDS ribbon upside down as a symbol for VICTORY—victory for all the hard work and advances that have been made in the last 21 years of HIV vaccine research.

The War on Condoms
Many high school health classes do not talk about condoms, let alone teach students how to use them effectively. Even the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has begun censoring information on condoms.

Abstinence-Only Goes Global
As if that were not enough, conservatives are spreading globally their ideology about sexual health and condoms. The administration began promoting abstinence-only through PEPFAR, its funding for global HIV prevention, distributed via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Condom Labeling
"If they can't have sex safely, maybe they won't have sex at all..."