A Pew Research Center reportExit Disclaimer notes that women continue to use Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest more than men do. As we prepare to observe National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) on March 10, here are some resources to that you can share across each of these platforms.Use #NWGHAADExit Disclaimer and join the conversation around this year’s theme “The Best Defense Is a Good Offense.”

FacebookHIV.gov’s FacebookExit Disclaimer page keeps you updated with videos, blogs, and all things HIV. The HHS Office on Women’s HealthExit Disclaimer (OWH) includes NWGHAAD resources and addresses health issues of interest to women. CDC frequently posts about its Act Against AIDS campaignsExit Disclaimer which include resources for women.

Need images for your NWGHAAD Facebook page? Check out OWH’s social media toolkit for NWGHAAD and the NWGHAAD 2016 poster and logo. CDC also has a new infographic for NWGHAAD.

Twitter

Use the hashtags #NWGHAADExit Disclaimer and #BestDefenseExit Disclaimer. Get visual! Update your Twitter cover art with a cover image from CDC and a profile picture from OWH.

Sample tweets are available in OWH’s NWGHAAD social media kit. You can follow and re-tweet Federal handles that communicate about HIV and the HIV/AIDS observances:

• @AIDSgovExit Disclaimer
• @womenshealthExit Disclaimer
• @DrDeanCDCExit Disclaimer
• @DrMerminCDC Exit Disclaimer
• @TalkHIVExit Disclaimer
• @CDC_HIVAIDSExit Disclaimer
• @HRSAgovExit Disclaimer

PinterestPinnable images are available from the HIV.gov HIV basics pages and NWGHAAD pages, the OWH NWGHAAD website, and on CDC’s HIV pages. You can also pin the HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator to encourage HIV testing for women.

Here are some boards to follow :

• HIV.gov NWGHAAD boardExit Disclaimer (newly updated!)
• CDC’s Preventing HIV and STDs boardExit Disclaimer has information on HIV, AIDS, and STDs
• OWH’s National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day boardExit Disclaimer

Thunderclap

We close with one more wide-reaching platform you can use for NWGHAAD. OWH has invited all social media users to join their Thunderclap to publicize HIV awarenessExit Disclaimer on March 10.

We hope you will be a part of the digital conversation about HIV—both on and after National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

HIV.gov is participating in a NWGHAAD “blog hop: Check out the links to other participating partners below:

• Dr. Hazel Dean: Our Girls Matter: Making Progress Against HIV Among Girls & WomenExit Disclaimer
• The Red Pump Project Why HIV Testing Should be on Every Woman’s To-Do ListExit Disclaimer
• Rae Lewis-Thornton: Tap Into Your Own PowerExit Disclaimer
• Charreah Jackson: I Trust My Man and I Still Get Tested for HIVExit Disclaimer
• Office on Women’s Health blog: Women and HIV: Essential Reads!

Follow the HIV.gov blog for more posts about women and HIV and the HIV/AIDS Awareness Days.Would you or others you know like to stay updated on issues related to HIV/AIDS and women?