Honoring National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day: April 10, 2024
Posted April 8, 2024
On April 10th, we recognize National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), a crucial moment to raise awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on young people. Join us in commemorating this day and empowering youth voices!
Advocates for Youth NYHAAD list of demands:
- Increasing empathy and reducing stigma about HIV and its impact on young people on campus and in communities
- Affirming policies around HIV care, treatment, and prevention on campus and in communities
- Decriminalizing HIV by modernizing outdated, out-of-touch HIV laws that criminalize people for their health status
- Accessing HIV services, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), on-campus and in communities without parental consent;
- Updating sex education curricula, which includes medically accurate information about HIV.
To learn more about NYHAAD and upcoming events, visit:
To delve deeper into engaging youth in HIV prevention, we invite you to register for our recent virtual event, “PrEP Ready! Community of Practice – PrEP is for Youth: Empowering youth to manage their sexual health.” Although the event has concluded, registering will grant you access to valuable learning materials from the session. Explore insights and strategies shared by experts to strengthen equitable PrEP programming at FQHCs and enhance your clinic’s approach to engaging youth in PrEP and sexual health services.
