What Bracelets do You Wear #UntilTheresACure?

Join our Campaign to Show Off Your Bracelet!

Snap a picture wearing your UNTIL Bracelets and post them to our Facebook Wall or Tweet them to us (@UntilOrg) to Raise Awareness #UntilTheresACure!

Make sure to hash-tag #UntilTheresACure!

AND throughout July – in honor of National HIV Awareness Month – we’re offering 10% your entire purchase at www.until.org. Click here to get your coupon code from our Facebook Page!

Join the Conversation

Silence = Death

Please help Raise Awareness and be part of the Solution.  Join the Conversation by taking part in our brief survey through our Facebook page.

Thank you!

Today is World AIDS Day

…and it seems like everyone is getting involed: Google, Facebook, Twitter, and many other companies are promoting AIDS awareness and fundraising. How are you making a difference? Let us know in the comments or send an email!

-Until There’s A Cure!

Help UTAC in Chase Community Giving!

You can help Until There’s A Cure to win prizes [up to $1 million!] from Chase — just visit the Chase Community Giving page for Until There’s A Cure to vote! There is NO DONATION required; the charities with the most votes will win huge donations from Chase.

Thank you for your support!

-Until There’s A Cure

America’s Giving Challenge Ends Friday at 3 PM!

The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE Magazine’s month-long project to inspire charitable giving is coming to a close. The last day to make donations is this Friday, November 6th. America’s Giving Challenge is an effort to publicize small, continued giving to charities all across the country and around the world. The goal of the event isn’t to amass the most money for a cause — although, that’s a great goal as well! — but rather to encourage supporters to give small amounts and to give them often. Each participant can donate once per day to a cause, and each individual donation is counted.

Until There’s A Cure needs your support in America’s Giving Challenge — can you join us and make a donation of just $10 to help fight the spread of HIV and AIDS? Please visit http://causes.com/UNTIL to join our efforts — let’s work together to End AIDS.

-Until There’s A Cure

The True Value of a Gift

We’ve been Tweeting and updating our Facebook status like mad these past couple of days, trying to make people aware of America’s Giving Challenge. The really exciting thing about AGC is not that we generate donations [OK, to be fair, that is REALLY exciting, but it's not the only reason we're thrilled to participate], but that we generate buzz about HIV and AIDS, and can make thousands of people aware of the pandemic. Yesterday, at the start of the Challenge, there were 3 HIV/AIDS organizations in the top 10 for several hours, including Until There’s A Cure. That’s exciting because it means people are paying attention to HIV and AIDS — anyone who works in HIV and AIDS awareness knows that’s something that doesn’t always happen.

But how does America’s Giving Challenge really make a difference? Well, let’s look at a donation made through Facebook [how AGC works this year]. When someone donates, it helps us. But it also generates activity that’s spread throughout our Cause community and Facebook at large. The donor might post their donation on their wall, or comment on it. Her friends will “like” it, or comment on it — if we’re lucky, they’ll even click through, join our Cause, and make a donation of their own! America’s Giving Challenge is a challenge for nonprofits like Until There’s A Cure to generate energy and excitement within their own communities, and it’s a challenge to our community to generate excitement among our friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, doctors, electricians, and everyone else.

America’s Giving Challenge is an opportunity to show that a small donation can go just as far as a large one — and when we get our communities involved, those small donations can go even further. Please help us keep this great energy moving forward… Until There’s A Cure. Donate now at http://causes.com/UNTIL and then let your Facebook friends, your Twitter followers, and your email contacts know how you’ve helped to end AIDS.

-Until There’s A Cure

Today’s Thai Vaccine Clinical Trial News

Earlier today, we wrote to the more than 1,200 members of our Cause on Facebook regarding the results of the recently-completed clinical trial of an HIV vaccine in Thailand. Below, we are reposting it for you. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the news.

-Until There’s A Cure

Exciting Vaccine Development, and Keeping HIV on the Radar

I’m writing to you with exciting news: today, results of a large-scale clinical trial–conducted in Thailand by the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the US Army, Sanofi-Pasteur, and Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases–showed signs of its efficacy in preventing HIV infection. While the results are far from conclusive, and do not indicate that an HIV vaccine is at hand, they are extremely positive and shed light on new research that needs to be done.

The vaccine trial, conducted with more than 16,000 Thai volunteers, tested two vaccine parts–two parts that had previously been deemed ineffective when used independently. This trial used both parts, with the greatest success yet seen in a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine.

It’s important to note that however exciting this news is–and it is VERY exciting–it is not a sign that we are finished with HIV/AIDS. I want to emphasize that these results are just the first step in many, many more trials that must be conducted, both to increase the effectiveness of the vaccine candidates, as well as to confirm their safety for use. These trials are costly and rely on the generous support of both government and private donations–donations made to Until There’s A Cure, and countless other HIV/AIDS organizations.

The funds that Until There’s A Cure raises, through donations and sales of The Bracelet, go directly to making these sorts of scientific advances possible, each and every day. By purchasing and wearing The Bracelet, you are making a tangible contribution to finding a cure for HIV/AIDS — and you are making your voice heard in support of this life-saving research. “HIV” is actually a trending topic on Twitter today due to this news story — we’ve got to keep the public informed and passionate about a vaccine for HIV and a cure for AIDS. Each member of our Facebook Cause, fan of our Page, reader of our blog, and subscriber to our newsletter is helping to place HIV/AIDS at the forefront of public attention.

We need to keep this level of attention focused on Vaccine Advocacy, Care & Services, and Prevention Education. Exciting developments like today’s don’t come along every week, but awareness and support for all aspects of HIV and AIDS are everyday necessities.

Finally, I want to congratulate Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, recipient of an Until There’s A Cure grant in a previous year. We invite you to learn more about this exciting news and read the GSID press release.

Thanks so much for your support, and for your ongoing commitment to the Cause… Until There’s A Cure