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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) became operational in 1996, and it took over the planning and promotion of World AIDS Day. [8] Rather than focus on a single day, UNAIDS created the World AIDS Campaign in 1997 to focus on year-round communications, prevention and education.
While UN AIDS was officially created in 1994 with UN resolution, [6] and launched in 1996, the roots of UN AIDS can be traced back to the first recorded case of HIV/AIDS 15 years prior in 1981, and the launch of the Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS ("GNP+") started in 1986 by Dietmar Bolle, an HIV positive specialist nurse and ...
PHOTO: President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a World AIDS Day event on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2024. (Annabelle Gordon/Getty Images)
Many of these observances have been established by the United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Economic and Social Council or World Health Organization. World Health Observances mark a period which is often used to promote an issue and mobilize for action.
The International AIDS Conference (abbreviated AIDS 2012, AIDS 2014 and so on) is the world's most attended conference on HIV and AIDS, and the largest conference on any global health or development issue in the world. [7] First convened during the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1985, they were held annually until 1994 when they became biennial.
HIV.gov, formerly known as AIDS.gov, is an internet portal for all United States federal domestic HIV and AIDS resources and information. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched AIDS.gov.
The goal of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week is getting to zero. [11] Despite different methods used by aboriginal communities to try to decrease the prevalence of AIDS, populations like the First Nation tribes in Saskatchewan in Canada, have about 3.5 times more cases of AIDS than other areas in Canada, as well as higher than most third world countries.
3 May - World Press Freedom Day; 5 May - African World Heritage Day; World Portuguese Language Day; 16 May - International Day of Light; International Day of Living Together in Peace; 20 May - World Metrology Day since 2023; 21 May - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development since 2002; 22 May - International Day for ...