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NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS VOICES FOR WORLD AIDS DAY On December 1st, people around the world united in solidarity for World AIDS Day. In the weeks leading up to World AIDS Day, CANFAR once again spearheaded the annual national, bilingual Voices for World AIDS Day social media campaign. The campaign was centered on the theme set by UNAIDS, Communities Make the Difference and featured eight informative social media videos with topics of U=U, access to testing, treatment and more. The campaign called on Canadians to challenge HIV stigma, promoted World AIDS Day events across the country, and encouraged the public to wear a red ribbon on December 1st to show their support. Watch the full playlist. We expanded our network from 2018 of 22 partners to over 60 partnering organizations, 40 of which were new. These partners spanned communities from coast to coast, and represented regions and territories where we were previously unable to reach. We reached out to over 100 government leaders from Yukon to Nova Scotia, and received responses from several key individuals, including the Ministers of Health in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, as well as the Office of the Mayor, Toronto and Ottawa.
