It is formed in 1988, Action for AIDS (AfA) is a voluntary community based organization and a registered charity since 7 October 1994.
Their aims and objectives are to provide support and assistance to persons living with HIV and AIDS (PWAs). They also want to increase awareness, education and understanding of AIDS and HIV infection. Also to combat discrimination and stigmatisation of (PWAs) and their loved ones and to encourage AIDS-related research activities in Singapore.
They have events such as World AIDS Day Walk, The Red Ribbon Race that people can participate in. They have a blog (http://artagainstaids.wordpress.com/ )where people can showcase their talents and art work which are related to AIDS.
To create awareness, they have a few campaigns such as Play Safe,*Think Again,Cos AIDS isn’t Sexy to name a few. The campaigns aims are similar which is to prevent AIDS from occurring between partners.They also have education materials in the form of postcards,posters and cartoons.
Most importantly,they need donations to help them fund life saving anti HIV medications and to help in their prevention efforts. Not only donations,they also need volunteers HIV Counseling and Testing Clinic.
I recommend that they should held talks in schools and public to create awareness among young adults and teenagers especially.
Reference:http://www.afa.org.sg/home.php
