How you can support World AIDS Day

• By raising awareness of HIV and AIDS in your area.

• By wearing a red ribbon, and asking others to do the same.

• By protecting yourself - this is the first and best way to stop the spread of HIV.

• If you are worried - get tested.

At school or work

• Have a dressing up, down or fancy dress day

• Put up some posters - get people talking

• Sell red ribbons

• Organise a creative writing/poster campaign

• Set up a debate or a quiz - there're lots of ideas for topics on our site

• Cook an international meal or have a cake sale

• Arrange a sponsored three-legged race or balloon release

• Get your friends, family, colleagues or pupils to express their feelings and expand their

knowledge about AIDS

• Use your imagination!

Put up a display

Putting up a display, whether at work, school or in a public library or shopping centre or mall, is an excellent way of raising awareness of HIV and creating discussion. There are some posters and booklets on the site in our education section and these can be downloaded and printed out as part of your display.

Raise money for an AIDS Charity

Raising money for an AIDS charity will help valuable AIDS work to continue, as well as raising awareness. Quite simply, helping AIDS charities will save people's lives.
 

An HIV+ woman in a poor township in South Africa

Together we can work towards an AIDS-free world.

World AIDS Day on the Web

The internet is a great way to reach people all around the world - other people in many countries are reading this page right now. People now spend more of their daily lives online - at work, at school, at home. People shop, chat, make new friends, study and work online. If you want to get a message to as many people as possible, this could be the way to do it.

Think about

• Providing information on your website about World AIDS Day, and about any local events taking place in your community.

• Asking your school, college or employer to provide information on their website.