National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day is observed each year on September 18.
Want to get involved in this observance? Use and share the resources below.
Share these Federal Resources
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Many federal agencies work to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in the U.S. Read about the work and goals of the Administration for Community Living.
Here are several more agencies responding to the epidemic:
Locate HIV Testing and Other Services
![Locate HIV Testing and Other Services Locate HIV Testing and Other Services](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/api-locator.png)
Use and share the HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator.
Learn about the Locator app. Download the app for iPhone and iPad
OR Android.
Visit https://gettested.cdc.gov/.
National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day Badge
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Help promote National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day. Post this web badge on your site.
Copy the Badge Code:
<a href="/news-and-events/awareness-days/aging/" title="Aging Awareness Day. September 18th."><img src="/images/logo-national-hiv-aging-awareness-badge.png" width="121" height="121" alt="Aging Awareness Day. September 18th." /></a>
Posters and Widgets
![Old Man](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/aging-awareness-icon.jpg)
The AIDS Institute offers downloadable posters to support local events. Visit their site.
Add the HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator widget to your website.
Learn about Doing It
![Learn about Doing It](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/act-against-aids-doingit.jpg)
Doing It is a national HIV testing and prevention campaign designed to motivate all adults to get tested for HIV and know their status.
Download its banners and graphics
Watch and share the Doing It videos.
Positive Spin
![Positive Spin Positive Spin](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/positivespin-instagram.jpg)
View and share Paul’s story from Positive Spin.
Learn more about this series of real stories from real people about their unique experiences along the HIV Continuum of Care.
How can you use this digital storytelling project to encourage HIV awareness?
Learn about the Epidemic
![Learn about the Epidemic Learn about the Epidemic](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/api-epidemic.png)
Read and share this AIDS.gov page on Living with HIV as You Age.
Learn the HIV/AIDS Basics. Know the Facts, Take Care of Yourself.
Follow the Conversation on Social Media
![Twitter logo Twitter logo](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/api-new-media.png)
Join the #HIVAgingChat Twitter chat: Sept. 16, 2016 at 3pm ET, hosts are: @reprievetrial;
@acriasays;
@NLM_HIVplus50
and @ACTGNetwork.
Use the hashtag #NHAAAD to share about how you’re observing NHAAAD.
Follow @AIDSgov and @NLM_HIVplus50
Subscribe to the AIDS.gov blog to hear about HIV/AIDS awareness days, new media and more.
Other HIV/AIDS Awareness Days
![HIV AIDS](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/wad-action-facts.jpg)
Read the AIDS.gov blog posts recognizing the national HIV/AIDS observances.
Download the HIV/AIDS Awareness Days postcard here (PDF, 1.49MB).
Learn about the Affordable Care Act
![HealthCare.gov: Take health care into your own hands Learn More](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/badge-hhs-healthcare.gif)
Visit Healthcare.gov to find out about the Health Insurance Marketplace and more.
Learn about the Affordable Care Act and HIV.
Learn about the PEPFAR Blueprint
![PEPFAR](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/wad-pepfar.jpg)
Read and share the PEFPAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation (PDF 2.9MB) and fact sheet.
Learn more about PEPFAR.
Read the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
![National HIV/AIDS Strategy](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20170125031756im_/https://www.aids.gov/images/wad-action-nhas.jpg)
The Strategy is the nation's comprehensive coordinated HIV/AIDS roadmap. Read the National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020 (PDF 2.2 MB).
How can you help implement the Strategy in your community?
Learn about the Strategy and the HIV Care Continuum Initiative.
Watch Our Strategy: National HIV/AIDS Strategy Updated to 2020 video.