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After the usually struggles with my university's administraion, I was able to get a table on campus during the week of World AIDS Day for a week-long event that I called "Candy Canes and Condoms." The catch: I had to distribute through another organization on campus (Texas Aggie Democrats) and I wasn't able to actually hand people the condoms, I could only have a bowl of them out for people to take. But I was still able to distribute over 250 condoms just that week!
I had some of my friends in Aggie Democrats help me tape mini candy canes (I bought them myself) to the outside of the condoms and we printed off a bunch of fliers and made some signs saying, "Free Candy Canes and Condoms" and "BTHO HIV/AIDS" (BTHO is one of our school slogans that means Beat The Hell Out of: insert various school opponent). Some people were more interested in the candy canes and put the condoms back in the bowl, but a surprising number of people wanted just the plain condoms.
The GLBT organization on campus also had free rapid HIV testing on World AIDS Day and the day before in a building on campus, which was awesome because I was able to tell several people about it and at least 5 or 6 of them said they were heading over to get tested. There was another organization on campus that was handing out free red ribbons on World AIDS Day but a lot of people didn't want them for some reason.
All in all it was a great week for distributing and I'm looking forward to more distributing next semester! BTHO HIV/AIDS!
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