World AIDS Day 2022 : History & importance
History Of AIDS
Two public information officers for the Global Program on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter in August 1987 to conceived with World AIDS Day. They have taken this idea to Director of the Global Programme on AIDS Dr Jonathan Mann, present which is called as UNAIDS.
MR. Mann got impressed with idea and given approval with the suggestion that the inaugural World AIDS Day observance should be on December 1st, 1988 the date of December 1 was suggested by Bunn, a former television broadcast journalist from San Francisco, in the hope that it would maximise coverage of World AIDS Day by western news media.
The focus of World AIDS Day’s inaugural theme was on children and young people. Although the theme’s selection at the time drew criticism for ignoring the fact that older individuals are more likely to be HIV-positive, the theme now serves to dispel the stigma associated with the illness and recognise it as a family disease.
In the US, the White House started observing World AIDS Day in 2007 by erecting an iconic 28-foot (8.5-meter) AIDS Ribbon on the North Portico of the structure. The display was suggested by White House adviser Steven M. Levine, who was then working in President George W. Bush’s administration, to represent the US commitment to fighting the global AIDS epidemic through the historic PEPFAR programme.
Since it was the first banner, sign, or emblem to prominently hang from the White House since the Abraham Lincoln administration, the White House display, now an annual tradition spanning four presidential administrations, attracted a lot of media attention.
U.S President has issued an official proclamation for World AIDS Day every year since 1993. Then on November 30, 2017, US President Donald Trump announced World AIDS Day on December 1.
What is World AIDS day?
December 1 has been set aside as World AIDS Day since 1988. An international day devoted to remembering those who have passed from the disease and bringing awareness to the AIDS crisis brought on by the spread of HIV infection.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the deadly illness known as the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The HIV virus targets the patient’s immune system and decreases it defences against other diseases. Globally Government Officials and Non-Government Officials and individuals celebrates the day usually by giving AIDS caution and how to control or kill the disease.
Along with World Health Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Immunization Week, World Tuberculosis Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Malaria Day, World Hepatitis Day, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, World Patient Safety Day, and World Chagas Disease Day, World AIDS Day is one of the eleven official global public health campaigns recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Globally, by 2020, 36.3 million people had killed between 27.2 million and 47.8 million people and 37.7 million people were living with HIV, making it one of the most significant global public health crises in recorded history. Due to the recent improved access to antiretroviral treatment in many parts of the world, the AIDS epidemic death rate peaked in 2004 by 64% from 1.9 million in 2004, compared to 6,80,000 in 2020.