Stand with PRIDE, Stand for a Cure

Stand With Pride - Stand for a Cure
Stand With Pride: LGBTQ+ Youth and HIV Risk

For Pride 2026, amfAR spotlights the impact of HIV on LGBTQ+ youth in the U.S. and the need to support research and policy based on scientific evidence.

Safeguarding Health Is a Collective Effort

Advocate Jeremiah Johnson discusses how HIV prevention, treatment, research, and policy efforts can work together and why we need to save HIV funding.

Andrea Gramatica, amfAR Vice President, Research
“We Know It’s Possible” The Future of HIV Cure Research

amfAR VP of Research Dr. Andrea Gramatica discusses progress toward a cure for HIV: where we stand now and how we’re going to get there.

Take the HIV and You(th) Quiz!

Here are 10 questions to test your knowledge about how HIV impacts young people. And click on links below for additional resources.

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1. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus.

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2. People aged 13 to 24 accounted for what percentage of new HIV acquisitions in 2022?

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3. True or False: The U.S. FDA has not approved PrEP, an HIV medicine in the form of pill or injection that prevents transmission of the virus, for people under 18.

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4. True or False: All high school curricula include mandatory sex education  and HIV awareness.

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5. From 2013 to 2023, condom use among sexually active high school students:

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6. What percentage of LGBTQ+ high school students in the U.S. have tested for HIV?

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7. What factors increase the risk of HIV among adolescents and young adults?

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8. According to a recent report, what percentage of people aged 18 to 26 feel knowledgeable about HIV?

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9. True or False: If you are HIV-negative or don’t know your HIV status and believe you may have been exposed to HIV during sex, there is nothing you can do to prevent yourself from acquiring HIV.

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10. When sex education is provided in schools, how many states mandate only negative information to be provided on homosexuality and/or positive emphasis on heterosexuality?

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