Ending HIV — Test Often Campaign
This time, it's personal.
The latest Ending HIV campaign – Test Often – is ACON’s fifth instalment of the long-running ‘Ending HIV’ campaign that launched in 2013. This integrated campaign across outdoor, print and social media continues to drive the overarching campaign objective to end HIV transmission in NSW by 2020.
ACON understands that if at-risk groups test more frequently, treat early and engage in safe sex, we can virtually eliminate HIV transmissions. Taking a human-centred design approach and working collaboratively with the client, we developed a strategy anchored in a deep understanding of the audience, their attitudes, needs, frustrations and motivations. From this foundation we set out to design an over-arching campaign that has been launched as a series of creative executions since 2013. The aim of the campaign was to disrupt stereotypes and ultimately inspire behavioural change to end HIV transmissions by 2020.
This long term initiative is now into its fifth year. In 2013 we embarked on a complex strategic phase and market analysis to understand the key human-centred factors that would contribute to, if not drive the eradication of HIV. Extensive research into the attitudes and experience of early testing throughout the community gave us the insight and foundation to develop the strategic pillars of the initiative. These are testing more, treating early and practicing safe sex. Each campaign and its accompanying creative execution has been anchored by a tailored creative strategy specifically aligned to an understanding of the audience.
To introduce the initiative to the market, a multi-phased media program highlighted these three key steps. Using a direct tone of voice the I’M ON creative route around condom use served to specifically communicate the “Stay Safe” component of the equation. The campaign used targeted outdoor media, digital ads, social media, press, posters and tactical executions such as safe packs, drink coasters and t-shirts.
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