National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day #NWGHAAD
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National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day #NWGHAAD

March 10
#NWGHAAD
Theme

Prevention and Testing at Every Age. Care and Treatment at Every Stage.

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March 10

The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services leads National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NWGHAAD).

In the United States, about 23% of people living with HIV are women and, in 2021, women made up 19 percent of new diagnoses, according to CDC data. The highest number of new diagnoses were among women ages 25 to 44. Advances in testing, treatment, and prevention have resulted in progress towards the nation’s goal to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.

The theme for NWGHAAD 2024 is: Prevention and Testing at Every Age. Care and Treatment at Every Stage. OWH continues this theme to reemphasize the need to further prevention efforts and ensure equity in HIV care and treatment. It also reinforces the first 3 goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), that focus on the prevention of new HIV infections, improving HIV-related health outcomes of people living with HIV, and reducing HIV-related disparities. NWGHAAD focuses efforts on three of the target populations outlined in the NHAS; Black women, transgender women, and youth aged 13-24 years.

You can learn more and find additional resources from OWH here. View additional data for women and girls through the AHEAD dashboard here.

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Federal Resources

National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Visit the NWGHAAD resource page offered by the HHS Office on Women's Health.

Share the Let’s Stop HIV Together campaign's social media graphics and posts for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) to help spark conversations about HIV and highlight prevention methods to reduce HIV among women.

CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together (Together) campaign is the national campaign of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Together is an evidence-based campaign created in English and Spanish. It aims to empower communities, partners, and health care providers to reduce HIV stigma and promote HIV testing, prevention, and treatment.

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Use the #NWGHAAD hashtag.

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Find HIV Testing and Other Services

HIV Prevention and Service Locator

Use the HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator. Add the locator to your site.

Learn about Ready, Set, PrEP, a nationwide program that makes PrEP medications that provides access to PrEP medications at no cost to people who qualify.

Visit https://gettested.cdc.gov/.

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Learn about the Epidemic

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Visit the HIV Basics pages.

Get this fact sheet about women and HIV, and other fact sheets.

Visit womenshealth.gov for health resources related to women and girls.