Join NAPWA in the fourth annual observance of National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NGMHAAD)!

Click HERE to register for –
•     Gala Red Ribbon Party, Sunday evening, September 25, 8:00pm–midnight at Washington, D.C.’s Town dance club ($10) - VIP Pre-party Reception 6:00-8:00pm ($50).
•     Monday, September 26 all-day conference at D.C.’s Human Rights Campaign headquarters – panels on health and prevention for gay men, the special experience of gay Latinos, and more.
•     Tuesday, September 27 9:00am prayer breakfast, 12:00pm press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Vince Gray, all-day HIV testing, and 5:00pm Red Flash Mob to release remembrance balloons in D.C.’s Dupont circle.

FREE ALL-DAY TESTING IN WASHINGTON, DC

Whitman-Walker Health
Free HIV Testing at Two Sites:
Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center
1701 14th Street NW
Walk-In: 9:00am through 5:00pm
Max Robinson Center
2301 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE
9:00am until 4:30pm

AHF-Blair Underwood Clinic
Free HIV Testing at 2121 K Street NW, Suite #600
Walk-in: 8:30am—12:00pm; 1:00—5:00pm
Thursdays
Walk-in: 12:00—5:00pm(HIV Testing);
5:00—7:30pm (HIV and STD Screening and Treatment)

Us Helping Us
Free HIV testing at 3636 Georgia Avenue NW
9:30am until 5:30pm

NGMHAAD Poster
Red Ribbon party VIP Reception Invitation
Red Ribbon Party Postcard A
Red Ribbon Party Postcard B
Monday Conference Schedule
Save the Date!
CDC Fact Sheet: HIV and AIDS among Gay and Bisexual Men

NAPWA founded NGMHAAD in 2008 to raise gay men's awareness of the HIV epidemic and the role they can play in bringing it to an end.

Too much of what was true in 2008 is still true today:

• At least 1.1 million Americans are living today with HIV.
• Half of them are men who have sex with men.
• One in five doesn't know he is infected.
• At least half, possibly as many as three-quarters of new infections come from people who don't know they are infected themselves.
• There is no cure yet for HIV. "Cocktail" drugs control the virus and keep us alive, but even with the "cocktail, life with HIV is no picnic.

What's new in 2011?

• If we're positive, we do better medically if we know it early and start treatment early.
• When we're in treatment, we're less likely to infect others. (But don't throw out your condoms!)
• We have tools today to slow the epidemic down: treatment as prevention, PrEP for high-risk groups, and our old friends Safe(r) Sex and Safe(r) drug use. We were here at the epidemic's beginning. Let's be here for its end!

NGMHAAD uses partnerships with many other government and private HIV agencies, this website, and a Twitter campaign to -
• Increase gay men's sense of urgency about the epidemic.
• Help them understand their risks and learn how to protect themselves and others.
• Motivate them to seek testing and treatment if they test positive.
• Enlist them to HIV stigma and homophobia.

JOIN US for this year’s National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, September 27!

For more information on NGMHAAD, contact Stephen Bailous, sbailous@napwa.org.

Click HERE for Steve's NGMHAAD blog on AIDS.gov.

Click HERE to download SAVE THE DATE flyer!