30 actions for 30 years
- Get tested
- Educate yourself and your peers about the transmission of HIV
- Address the stigma and discrimination against those with HIV/AIDS in your community
- Prevent the spread of HIV by using a latex barrier consistently and correctly during sexual activity.
- Fundraise to support programs working in HIV prevention and treatment
- Attend a campaign event to encourage your local leaders to support legislation that funds HIV prevention, treatment, and care
- Create safe spaces to speak openly about difficult issues like sex, sexuality, and drug use
- Fight gender inequality
- Support comprehensive sexual education in schools
- Wear a red ribbon to raise awareness
- Organize a World AIDS Day event in your community
- Attend a World AIDS Day event in your community
- Post information about your World AIDS Day event on our website
- Support your local needle exchange
- Volunteer at one of your local AIDS organizations
- Reject common myths and misconceptions about HIV
- Fight racial inequality
- Fight homophobia
- Donate to your local AIDS organization
- Support HIV vaccine research
- Start or join an AIDS Walk team in a city near you
- Take a bloodborne pathogens training course at your local Red Cross
- Sign petitions and start letter writing campaigns to make your voice heard on Capitol Hill
- Start a club to take action against HIV/AIDS on your campus
- Support efforts to increase access to all medical services
- Write an article or editorial for a campus or city newspaper or newsletter
- Hold a candlelight vigil to remember those with HIV who have passed
- Mark other annual HIV awareness days in your calendar
- Educate yourself about the nature of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in other countries
- Post articles about HIV/AIDS on your Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter account to educate your friends