Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes
The New Zealand Herpes Foundation
New Zealand
2025
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Entrant Company
Motion Sickness
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Clio Health 2025
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Health Awareness & Advocacy
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Creative Strategy
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Creative Strategy
Make New Zealand the Best Place in The World to Have Herpes’ is the world’s most unlikely tourism campaign, underpinned by an important health message.
Featuring a world first ‘Herpes Destigmatisation Course’, a global ranking system underpinned by live data, and irreverent humour, this campaign took an unusual approach to reducing herpes stigma – framing it as the key to restoring New Zealand’s diminished sense of national pride.
Over 8 weeks, New Zealand rallied and climbed the rankings, beating the rest of the world to claim the #1 title – changing attitudes toward herpes in the process.