Awareness Days & Digital

4-10-2018Twitter was born in 2006. By 2007, 400,000 tweets posted per quarter. By February 2008, 100 million tweets posted per quarter. By June 2010, about 65 million tw…

4-9-2018Twenty-two percent of new HIV cases in 2015 in the United States occurred among young people (ages 13-24), according to the U.S. Centers for Dise…

2-6-2018In January of 2017, 36 percent of U.S. internet users watched online video content on a daily basis; and YouTube’s top 10 trending videos for 2017 ga…

2-2-2018Individuals who get their HIV/AIDS care from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) have low incomes, little to no health coverage, but relatively high rates o…

1-30-2018Almost as soon as we sent our first tweet (back in 2008), the HIV.gov team started participating in Twitter chats. Over the years, we’ve joined chats as a…

1-16-2018The HIV community is rapidly approaching the February 7th annual observance of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD).To help our readers flesh out thei…

1-11-2018Continuing our review of our most popular blogs in 2017, we recently looked at visits to the HIV.gov awareness day category. Here’s the top 10 blogs: …

12-5-2017Along with Instagram, Facebook, and others, Snapchat is one of the most popular apps in the U.S. among 18- to 24-year-olds. Given its reach and popularity, it c…

12-4-2017World AIDS Day is always a busy time for the HIV.gov blog—so busy that it can be easy to miss important posts you want to read! For your convenience, we h…

12-4-2017Cross-posted from the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, November 28, 2017 Few wars are won without allies. The fight to end the HIV epidemic is no exceptio…