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Get Involved with World AIDS Day

• Learn about CRS' response to the global pandemic. Through November, the CRS blog, Voices, is publishing weekly HIV-related posts leading up to World AIDS Day.
  
  
• Raise Awareness of the Disease with the Ring the Bell activity. Educate your local community, and support those affected by the pandemic around the world.
  
  
• Advocate for global HIV programs that help people affected by the disease. Send an email to your elected officials now or download this action alert.
  
  
• Inform your community about global HIV and AIDS. Here are two educational handouts you can print, copy and distribute for World AIDS Day. Use them in schools, after mass or at home, so people can learn how the Catholic Church is responding to the global pandemic and how they can help.
  • Restoring Hope: CRS and HIV (2 page version)
  • Restoring Hope: CRS and HIV (4 page version)
  
  
• Watch a video about the lifesaving AIDSRelief program in Zambia. See the stories of the in-field volunteers who counsel others on taking their antiretroviral therapy.
  
  
• Share the stories and images of HIV. HIV in Africa: Responding with Hope offers photos exhibiting the Catholic Church's response to the HIV epidemic in Africa.
  
  
• Donate to a CRS AIDS Program. Raise the quality of life for those living with HIV and AIDS, protect their rights, reduce behavior that increases HIV risk and educate people about HIV and AIDS.
  
  

• Prayer Resources

  World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil
  
  
• Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance Advent Calendar
  
  
• The Picture of Compassion: A CRS Prayer Service is a prayerful call for just and compassionate responses to the global HIV pandemic.

• Helpful Information

  CRS HIV & AIDS Programs
• HIV & AIDS Statistics
• World AIDS Campaign
• The Global HIV and AIDS Timeline
• HIV & AIDS World Map
• United Nations World AIDS Day
• UNAIDS

Several of the websites cited on this page come from external sources. All rights are reserved to the appropriate organization/individual(s) who have published the content.

CRS HIV and AIDS programs are guided by policy from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (Called to Compassion, 1989). The websites cited here come from various sources and may not be consistent with USCCB policy. Inclusion of these documents in this webpage does not imply CRS endorsement.

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