New HIV Advocates Survey is Now Active: Amplify Your Voice. Start Here

July 29, 2014 - PRLog -- HIV Advocates is a global initiative to share news, experiences, strategies and new tools to catalyze the response in the fight to #endAIDS. The HIV Advocates Survey aims to collect the opinions, views, and experiences of users of its various communication platforms. Provide HIV Advocates with the know-how to create effective and participatory change!

Thirty years into the HIV epidemic, we now have the scientific and medical know-how to prevent new HIV infections. But the potential to #endAIDS is being blocked by lack of information and access to new prevention technologies, huge disparities in access to anti-retroviral treatment, and by laws and policies that punish and criminalize people living with HIV (PLHIV) and vulnerable populations. A strong undercurrent of stigma and discrimination runs rampant throughout.

The HIV Advocates website carefully selects toolkits to help individuals and organizations working on HIV to advocate effectively to overturn discriminatory laws and policies and expand access to treatment and information. These advocacy toolkits collect best practice examples globally, from sex-worker led programming to MSM led advocacy programming. Its Advocacy Stories section compiles the work experiences, stories, and case studies of HIV advocacy work from community organizations around the world – from Argentina, to China, to Russia, to Thailand and beyond. The HIV Advocates Calendar keeps you up to date on what’s going on in HIV advocacy year round.

Learn from their examples to create your own.

The HIV Advocates Survey wants to compile the views and opinions of activists, advocates and those in the making on their experience of using the HIV Advocates website and its social media channels. It asks the question: - How can we improve and facilitate collaboration to end HIV-related stigma and discrimination?

Completing this survey will help HIV Advocates to optimize user experiences. The survey seeks out the views and opinions of people living with HIV (PLHIV), and those that support them.  By listening to the views and experiences of its users, HIV Advocates can feeds user opinions and experiences in driving and stimulating further content on HIV Advocates platforms.

The Survey is Active Now! It is anonymous and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. All participants go into the draw to win one of two computer tablet covers.

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