Question: When is the World AIDS Day observed every year?
(a) 1 December
(b) 30 November
(c) 2 December
(d) 29 November
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- World AIDS day was observed across the globe on December 1, 2019.
- This year the theme for the World Aids Day 2019 is “Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Community by Community”.
- World AIDS Day is held on the 1st December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.
- World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, held for the first time in 1988.
- Of the 37.9 million people living with HIV at the end of 2018, 79% received testing, 62% received treatment, and 53% had achieved suppression of the HIV virus with reduced risk of infecting others.
- There are 17,00,000 newly infected HIV patients in 2018 and 7,70,000 people died in the HIV related deaths.
- Thousands of community health workers and members of the HIV and key population networks – many of whom are living with HIV or affected by the epidemic – contributed to this success.
Links:
http://ddnews.gov.in/health/world-aids-day-observed-across-globe
https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-aids-day/2019