World Day against AIDS

World Day against AIDS

by Fotini Papadopoulou

Multiple Choice

When is the world day against AIDS?

• 1st December

• 3rd December

• 5th December

• 26th December

Multiple Choice

When was world day against AIDS first established?

• 1980

• 1985

• 1988

• 2000

​December 1st

​The theme for the 2021 observance is “Ending the HIV Epidemic: Equitable Access, Everyone’s Voice”.

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World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988. Each year, organizations and individuals across the world bring attention to the HIV epidemic, endeavor to increase HIV awareness and knowledge and speak out against HIV stigma.

Ways HIV Cannot Be Spread

• Air or water

• Mosquitoes, ticks or other insects

• Saliva, tears, or sweat that is not mixed with the blood of a person with HIV

• Shaking hands; hugging; sharing toilets; sharing dishes, silverware, or drinking glasses; or engaging in closed-mouth or “social” kissing with a person with HIV

• Drinking fountains

• Other sexual activities that don’t involve the exchange of body fluids (for example, touching).

HIV can’t be passed through healthy, unbroken skin.

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​How Do You Get AIDS?

• You can’t “catch” AIDS.

  AIDS is the most advanced stage of HIV infection. If you have HIV and you are not on HIV treatment, eventually your body’s immune system will weaken and you will progress to AIDS.

  People with AIDS have such badly damaged immune systems that they get a number of severe illnesses, called opportunistic infections.