HIV /AIDS: WORLD AIDS DAY IST DECEMBER-HISTORIC & PRESENT SIGNIFICANCE 

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World AIDS Day was first observed on December 1, 1988 to bring greater awareness to HIV/AIDS and the communities affected by the global epidemic. Today, it is regarded as the longest-running disease awareness and prevention initiative of its kind in the history of public health.
History of World AIDS Day:
Interestingly enough, World AIDS Day was first conceived as a means to capitalize on a media gap that existed between then U.S. presidential elections of 1988 and Christmas. James Bunn, a broadcast journalist who had recently taken a post at the World Health Organization (WHO), was convinced that audiences, weary of campaign coverage, could be drawn to the story. He and his colleague, Thomas Netter, finally proposed December 1st as the target date and spent next 16 month designing and implementing the inaugural event.

The first World AIDS Day focused on the theme of children and youth in order to bring greater awareness of the impact of AIDS on everyone, and not just groups that were being actively stigmatized by the media (e.g., gay men, intravenous drug users). The event coincided with the founding of the International AIDS Society (IAS) that same year.

From 1996, World AIDS Day operations were taken over by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), which expanded the scope to the initiative to a year-round prevention and education campaign.

In 2004, the World AIDS Campaign was relaunched an independent non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

World AIDS Day Themes

Over the years, World AIDS Day themes have largely mirrored the challenges and goals of the times—moving from awareness and education to larger issues of national governance and global cooperation.

From the late-1990s, as awareness grew about the life-extending promise of combination antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the focus gradually shifted from family and community to key barriers stifling the global prevention effort—among them stigma, discrimination, and the disempowerment of women and children.

With the founding of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2002 and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2003, increased pressure was placed on G8 countries to sustain HIV/AIDS funding the "Keep the Promise" campaigns of 2005-2010.

More recently, advances in research and global antiretroviral coverage have led policy makers to extol the promise of eventual HIV eradication with the "Getting to Zero" campaigns from 2011-2012 and the “Shared Responsibility: Strengthening Results for an AIDS-Free Generation" of 2013.

1988 – Inaugural Event
1989 – Our World, Our Lives – Let’s Take Care of Each Other
1990 – Women and AIDS
1991 – Sharing the Challenge
1992 – Community Commitment
1993 – Time to Act
1994 – AIDS and the Family
1995 – Shared Rights, Shared Responsibilities
1996 – One World. One Hope.
1997 – Children Living in a World with AIDS
1998 – Forces of Change: World AIDS Campaign With Young People
1999 – Listen, Learn, Live! World AIDS Campaign with Children & Young People
2000 – AIDS: Men Make a Difference
2001 – Men Can Make a Difference: "I care. Do you?"
2002 – Live and Let Live: Stigma and Discrimination
2003 – Live and Let Live: Stigma and Discrimination
2004 – "Have you heard me today?" Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS.
2005 – Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.
2006 – Keep the Promise – Accountability
2007 – Keep the Promise – Leadership "Take the Lead"
2008 – Keep the Promise – Leadership "Lead, Empower, Deliver"
2009 – Keep the Promise – Universal Access and Human Right
2010 – Keep the Promise – Universal Access and Human Right
2011 – Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths.
2012 – Getting to Zero: Zero New HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths.
2013 – Shared Responsibility: Strengthening Results for an AIDS-Free Generation
2014-Zero Tolerance for HIV/Aids Incidence,investigation and treament for all