Testing will identify all those who need access to treatment, which will help those with HIV live longer and healthier lives. But with stagnating global contributions and an ever-increasing infection rate in many countries, including Russia and South Africa , one could argue that there has never been a more important time to mark World AIDS Day than now. James Bunn, a broadcast journalist who had recently taken a post at the World Health Organization WHO , was convinced that audiences could be drawn to the story after nearly a year of non-stop campaign coverage.
He and his colleague, Thomas Netter, decided that December 1 was the ideal date and spent the next 16 months 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 families, not just the groups commonly stigmatized by the media including gay and bisexual men and injecting drug users. World AIDS Day themes over the years have mirrored the policy goals of public health authorities, moving from awareness and education to the larger objectives of community and global cooperation.
From the lates, as awareness grew about the life-extending promise of antiretroviral therapy , the focus gradually shifted from family and community to key barriers stifling the global prevention effort, including stigma , discrimination, and the disempowerment of women and children.
With the founding of The Global Fund in and the U. In more recent years, advances in therapy and global drug coverage, as well as breakthroughs in preventive interventions , have led policymakers to promote a potential end of the epidemic with the Getting to Zero campaigns from to Around 1. Get information on prevention, symptoms, and treatment to better ensure a long and healthy life.
Global statistics. Most people do this by wearing an HIV awareness red ribbon on the day. Getting tested is the only way to find out if you have HIV. If you are living with HIV, starting treatment early means you can live a full, healthy and productive life. Free self-sampling HIV test kits are available to people from certain areas in England here. Rachel L. Campaigns Many Federal agencies have developed public awareness and education campaigns to address HIV prevention, treatment, care, and research.
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