World Aids Day 2020: What is HIV, when is World AIDS Day celebrated? Learn this year’s theme and purpose of celebrating AIDS Day

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World Aids Day 2020: Every year, World AIDS Day is celebrated on 1 December to make people aware of HIV infection worldwide. Every year the theme of World AIDS Day is kept differently. AIDS is a dangerous disease. AIDS disease is detected after a long time and patients are also not aware of HIV test, hence the confusion of other disease remains. The first step to avoid this serious problem is to identify the symptoms of AIDS. The full name of AIDS is ‘Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome’. The first to celebrate World AIDS Day globally was in August 1987 by two persons named James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, associated with the AIDS awareness campaign at the WHO. In the initial phase, World AIDS Day was seen only by connecting with children and youth.

While HIV infection can affect anyone of any age, followed by the United Nations on HIV / AID (UNAIDS) in 1996, handling its propagation and dissemination globally, in 1997, under the World AIDS Campaign for Communications, Worked a lot on prevention and education.

  • Theme of World AIDS Day 2020 | World AIDS Day 2020 Theme

The theme of World AIDS Day in 2020 is “Ending HIV / AIDS epidemic: Resilience and impact”. World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988. Every year, organizations and individuals around the world bring attention to the HIV epidemic, strive to increase HIV awareness and knowledge, speak out against the stigma of HIV, and take steps to stop the growing response.

  • Objective of World AIDS Day | Objective Of World AIDS Day

The aim of celebrating World AIDS Day is to raise awareness among people of all ages about the AIDS epidemic caused by HIV infection. AIDS is one of the biggest health problems of the present era.

  • What is HIV / AIDS What is HIV / AIDS

HIV is a serious form of life-threatening infection, which in medical language is known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). While people commonly know this as AIDS in common parlance i.e. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. In this disease, a fatal infection attacks the immunity system of the person’s body, due to which the body starts being unable to fight against common diseases.

 

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