Take Action. No Discrimination. Get Informed.

World AIDS Day, December 1 2010 

Each year on December 1, thousands of Australians don a red ribbon in commemoration of a day meant to remind the country that AIDS and HIV are still major health issues affecting hundreds of men and women every year. 

Australia, including NSW, has led the way in bringing communities, governments and health specialists together to tackle the HIV challenge that was so prominent in the 1980s-90s.  This year, Family Planning NSW is reminding everyone HIV is still here, and so is the discrimination that many people who live with HIV experience.

Family Planning NSW, in partnership with the Heterosexual HIV/AIDS Service (Pozhet) has produced a two-minute video clip featuring quotes* from people of different ages and backgrounds who are living with HIV.

The message is simple: “Take Action. No Discrimination. Get Informed.”

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Family Planning NSW encourages Australians to watch and share the video clip, as well as wear a red ribbon on December 1 as a reminder that HIV doesn’t discriminate. 

Want to know more about AIDS and HIV?  Go to www.worldaidsday.org.au or check out these pages on our website:

Women & HIV Factsheets         

About AIDS CD ROM                

HIV Overview Factsheet          

* The quotes in the video clip are taken from the Straightpoz Study: Men and women living heterosexually with HIV, from the National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR).

 
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Family Planning NSW has been helping people make informed choices about their reproductive and sexual health for more than 80 years. We are an independent, not-for-profit organisation focusing on the contribution to, promotion, collection and dissemination of reproductive and sexual health knowledge, information and learning to people in NSW.

Family Planning NSW has clinics operating in Ashfield, Fairfield, Penrith, Newcastle, Illawarra, and Dubbo, providing medical services, health promotion and reproductive education to thousands of men and women every year.