On World AIDS Day: the Stop AIDS Society held a red balloon race. They sold 950 tickets for this.  With every ticket the purchaser received a campaign pack with a condom, red ribbon and an info card about the society detailing the asks of the campaign and providing contact information for their society to recruit new members, as well as meeting times and locations. On top of this, a photo exhibition to mark World AIDS Day was organised in cooperation with the photography society.  This comprised a collection of arty photos and aimed to raise awareness of the campaign through a new medium

World AIDS Day was given maximum coverage at the University of Southampton. The Stop AIDS Society had an article prominently on the front cover of the student paper ‘The Wessex Scene’.  The group held a stall on the main concourse of the campus every day during the week leading up to 1^st December during which 700 action cards were signed and tickets were sold for the balloon race. The stall also featured a giant eyeball on the back of which they wrote the 3 demands of the action card and on the front they got hundreds of students to sign their names.

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