Operation Get Tested

Who’s Positive would like to request your review and organizational endorsement of Operation: Get Tested (OGT)

Who’s Positive, a non-profit organization that foregrounds the reality of living with HIV through first-hand accounts of young adults coping with the disease is proud to announce OPEARTION: GET TESTED(OGT); a nationwide campaign to humanize HIV; prevent and reduce infection rates among youth; and empower, encourage, and provide opportunity for youth to be tested for HIV. OGT will enable six HIV-positive youth between the ages of 18 and 26 to travel across the country (on a 12 person sleeper tour bus) on a mission to put a human face on HIV, and, in the process, help to prevent and reduce infection rates among youth and provide opportunity for youth to be tested for HIV.

Operation: Get Tested

• October 15 (National Latino HIV Awareness Day) to December 1 (World AIDS Day)
• Six HIV-positive youth between 19 and 26 of diverse backgrounds; five Who’s Positive staff; and one embedded reporter
• Twelve person sleeper tour bus
• 35 stops; 70% college and 30% high schools (tentative)
• Tour route: New York to Florida to Texas to Iowa to California (tentative)
• Three day speaker summit September 8, 9 and 10 at the Pittsburgh Marriott