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Youth HIV and AIDS DAY - April 10, 2017

Today's young people are the first generation who have never known a world without HIV and AIDS.

National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), April 10, 2017, serves as an important opportunity to focus our attention on the continued concern that young people account for a significant number of new HIV infections each year both nationally and in New Jersey. Black and Hispanic/Latino young men who have sex with men (YMSM) and transgender youth, ages 13-29, remain at highest risk for HIV infection. “Today’s young people are the first generation who have never known a world without HIV and AIDS.”[1] Read more http://bit.ly/2ojKBMW

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[1] National Youth HIV and AIDS Day. NYHAAD Campaign Toolkit. Accessed April 5, 2017.

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