At this year's Antigua carnival, the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance reached more than one fifth of the island's population with its Think Safe, Act Smart! campaign. From 25 July to 3 August 2008, a carnival bus took the campaign's messages to the streets and partygoers were given pouches of HIV information that could be used during the festivities to hold keys, money and condoms.

Fortaleciendo la Diversidad (FID), a community-based organisation of transgenders from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, has been specially recognised in the 2008 Red Ribbon Awards for their efforts to take action on HIV. FID was selected as the winner of the promoting human rights category for their outstanding contribution to defending the human rights of transgenders in Mexico. 

A leaflet highlighting the work of FIMIZORE, a network of sex worker organisations in Madagascar, is now available in English and French. The leaflet shares FIMIZORE's successes and lessons learned as it works to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among sex workers.

The first half of 2008 has seen an exceptional demand for Alliance publications, with nearly 350,000 publications downloaded from the Alliance’s website from January−June 2008. However, feedback shows that electronic resources are still difficult to access in some settings, and the Alliance is looking at what it can do to address this.