Editing World AIDS Day

{{Short description|International day on 1 December}}
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{{Infobox holiday
|holiday_name  = World AIDS Day
|type          = international
|image         = Red Ribbon.svg
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|caption       = The [[red ribbon]] is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS.
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|duration      = 1 day
|frequency     = Annual
|observedby    = All [[Member states of the United Nations|UN Member States]]
|date          = 1 December
|firsttime     = {{start date and age|df=yes|1988}}
|celebrations  =
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'''World AIDS Day''', designated on 1 December every year since 1988,<ref>{{cite web|title=About World Aids Day|url=http://www.worldaidsday.org/about/|website=worldaidsday.org|publisher=National Aids Trust|access-date=4 December 2014|archive-date=20 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120080054/http://www.worldaidsday.org/about|url-status=live}}</ref> is an [[list of minor secular observances#December|international day]] dedicated to [[raising awareness]] of the [[AIDS pandemic]] caused by the spread of [[HIV]] infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. The acquired [[immunodeficiency]] syndrome (AIDS) is a life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The HIV virus attacks the immune system of the patient and reduces its resistance to other diseases.<ref>{{Cite web|title=World AIDS Day 2020: Date, History, Current Theme, Importance, Significance|url=https://www.ndtv.com/education/world-aids-day-2020-date-december-1-history-theme-importance-significance|access-date=1 December 2020|website=NDTV.com|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201052003/https://www.ndtv.com/education/world-aids-day-2020-date-december-1-history-theme-importance-significance|url-status=live}}</ref> Government and health officials, non-governmental organizations, and individuals around the world observe the day, often with education on [[AIDS prevention]] and control.

World AIDS Day is one of the eleven official [[global health|global public health]] campaigns marked by the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO), 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]], [[Antimicrobial resistance#Global action plans and awareness|World Antimicrobial Awareness Week]], [[World Patient Safety Day]] and [[World Chagas Disease Day]].<ref>World Health Organization, [https://www.who.int/campaigns WHO campaigns.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231050504/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_rabies_day/en/ |date=31 December 2012 }}</ref>

{{As of|2020}}, AIDS has killed between 27.2&nbsp;million and 47.8&nbsp;million people worldwide, and an estimated 37.7&nbsp;million people are living with HIV,<ref name="UNAIDS2020">[https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet Global HIV & AIDS statistics — Fact sheet] UNAIDS. Accessed 4 December 2021.</ref> making it one of the most important global [[public health]] issues in [[recorded history]]. Thanks to recent improved access to [[antiretroviral drug|antiretroviral treatment]] in many regions of the world, the death rate from AIDS epidemic has decreased by 64% since its peak in 2004 (1.9&nbsp;million in 2004, compared to 680 000 in 2020).<ref name="UNAIDS2020"/>

==History==
[[File:AidsRusStamp1993.jpg|thumb|right|208px|Russian stamp, 1993]]
World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the [[World Health Organization]] in Geneva, Switzerland.<ref name="NPR">{{cite news|last=Block|first=Melissa|date=1 December 2011|title=How World AIDS Day Began|work=[[All Things Considered]]|publisher=[[NPR]]|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/12/01/143017936/how-world-aids-day-began|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801205834/https://www.npr.org/2011/12/01/143017936/how-world-aids-day-began|archive-date=1 August 2020}}</ref><ref>U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, International News, "World AIDS Day Co-Founder Looks Back 20 Years Later", CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, 12 December 2007</ref> Bunn and Netter took their idea to Dr. Jonathan Mann, Director of the Global Programme on AIDS (now known as [[UNAIDS]]). Mann liked the concept, approved it, and agreed with the recommendation that the first observance of World AIDS Day should be on 1 December 1988.<ref name="newsworks">{{cite news|last=Walter|first=Eric|date=30 November 2011|title=Inventors of World AIDS Day: James Bunn and Thomas Netter|publisher=[[WHYY-FM]]|url=https://whyy.org/articles/inventors-of-world-aids-day-james-bunn-and-thomas-netter/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205142908/http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local//speak-easy/30571-inventors-of-world-aids-day-james-bunn-and-thomas-netter|archive-date=5 December 2013}}</ref> Bunn, a former television broadcast journalist from San Francisco, had recommended the date of 1 December that believing it would maximize coverage of World AIDS Day by western news media, sufficiently long following the US elections but before the Christmas holidays.<ref name=newsworks/>

In its first two years, the theme of World AIDS Day focused on children and young people. While the choice of this theme was criticized at the time by some for ignoring the fact that people of all ages may become infected with HIV, the theme helped alleviate some of the stigma surrounding the disease and boost recognition of the problem as a family disease.<ref name="Speicher" />

The [[Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS]] (UNAIDS) became operational in 1996, and it took over the planning and promotion of World AIDS Day.<ref name="Speicher">{{cite web |url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/130044.php |author=Speicher, Sara |title=World AIDS Day Marks 20th Anniversary Of Solidarity. |work=Medical News Today |publisher=Medicalnewstoday.com |date=19 November 2008 |access-date=5 December 2013 |archive-date=22 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110222005944/http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/130044.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Rather than focus on a single day, UNAIDS created the World AIDS Campaign in 1997 to focus on year-round communications, prevention and education.<ref name="Speicher" /><ref name="Soest">{{cite web |url=http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/FeatureStories/archive/2006/20061020_Interview_Marcel_van_Soest.asp |title=van Soest, Marcel. "Accountability: Main Message on World AIDS Day." Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. 20 Oct 2006 |publisher=Unaids.org |date=20 October 2006 |access-date=5 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091204035959/http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/FeatureStories/archive/2006/20061020_Interview_Marcel_van_Soest.asp |archive-date=4 December 2009 }}</ref> In 2004, the World AIDS Campaign became an independent organization.<ref name="Speicher" /><ref name="Soest" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.unmultimedia.org/searchers/yearbook/page.jsp?volume=2005&page=35|title=Yearbook of the United Nations, 2005|publisher=United Nations Publications|year=2007|isbn=978-92-1-100967-5|editor-last=Jackson|editor-first=Peter|volume=59|location=Geneva, Switzerland|page=22|chapter=Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization|issn=0082-8521|editor-last2=Magherini|editor-first2=Federigo|editor-last3=Ukabiala|editor-first3=Jullyette|editor-last4=Gehler|editor-first4=Judith|editor-last5=Gorelick|editor-first5=Melissa|editor-last6=Moore|editor-first6=Lawri|editor-last7=Sebesta|editor-first7=John R.|editor-last8=Talwar|editor-first8=Manrita|display-editors=3|access-date=10 December 2020|archive-date=10 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210174148/https://www.unmultimedia.org/searchers/yearbook/page.jsp?volume=2005&page=35|url-status=live}}</ref>

Each year since 1988, [[Pope]]s have released a greeting message for patients and doctors on World AIDS Day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_19881128_aids_it.html |title=First World AIDS Day in 1988 |publisher=Vatican.va |access-date=5 December 2013 |archive-date=1 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131201023948/http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_19881128_aids_it.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.healthpastoral.org/text.php?cid=267&sec=4&docid=21&lang=en Message for the World AIDS Day] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103134/http://www.healthpastoral.org/text.php?cid=267&sec=4&docid=21&lang=en |date=4 March 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Gheddo |first=Piero |url=http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=4758 |title=Pope: "I feel near to people with AIDS and their families" |publisher=Asianews.it |access-date=5 December 2013 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201232802/http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=4758 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:65e95Hr5YywJ:data.unaids.org/pub/PressStatement/2006/World%2520AIDS%2520Day%2520-%2520CI%2520Statement%25202006%2520-%2520Eng.pdf+aids+day+pope+2006&hl=en&gl=ca&sig=AHIEtbT8DSFpREHZcQo4yw6rDo64M8Xw8w Message of Caritas Internationalis On Occasion of World AIDS Day 2006]{{Dead link|date=November 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Pullella |first=Philip |url=http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2007/11/30/pope-skirts-condoms-issue-in-world-aids-day-statement/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706084324/http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2007/11/30/pope-skirts-condoms-issue-in-world-aids-day-statement/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 July 2008 |title=Pope skirts condoms issue in World AIDS Day statement |work=Faithworld|agency=[[Reuters]] |access-date=5 December 2013}}</ref> In 2016, a collection of HIV, rabies, COVID and other respiratory virus [[NGOs]] (including Panagea Global AIDS and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa) started a campaign to rename World AIDS Day to World HIV Day. They claim the change will emphasize social justice issues, and the advancement of treatments like [[pre-exposure prophylaxis]].<ref>{{cite press release|title=The World Has Changed: The HIV Response Must Change Too On World HIV Day|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/the_world_has_changed_the_hiv_response_must_change_too_on_world_hiv_day/prweb13888541.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201013530/https://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/12/prweb13888541.htm|archive-date=1 December 2020|url-status=live|publisher=World HIV Day|last1=Teasdale|first1=Ana|via=PRWeb|date=30 November 2016}}</ref>

In the US, the [[White House]] began marking World AIDS Day with the iconic display of a {{convert|28|foot|m}} AIDS Ribbon on the building's North Portico in 2007.<ref>{{cite news| title=Two-Story AIDS Ribbon at White House| url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2007/11/the-2-story-tal/| last=Parker| first=Jennifer| work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]| date=30 November 2007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729222802/https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2007/11/the-2-story-tal/| archive-date=29 July 2013| access-date=1 December 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite wikisource |title=Proclamation 8207: World AIDS Day, 2007 |wslink=Proclamation 8207 |date=29 November 2007}}</ref> White House aide Steven M. Levine, then serving in President [[George W. Bush]]'s administration, proposed the display to symbolize the United States' commitment to combat the world AIDS epidemic through its landmark [[President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief|PEPFAR]] program.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Burger|first=Timothy J.|date=July–August 2014|title=Inside George W. Bush's Closet|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/inside-george-w-bushs-closet-108016|url-status=live|magazine=[[Politico Magazine]]|volume=1|issue=4|pages=28–36|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527184747/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/inside-george-w-bushs-closet-108016|archive-date=27 May 2020|access-date=2 December 2017}}</ref> The [[White House]] display, now an annual tradition across four presidential administrations, quickly garnered attention, as it was the first banner, sign or symbol to prominently hang from the White House since the [[Abraham Lincoln]] administration.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 December 2017|title=White House hangs red ribbon for World AIDS Day|work=[[CBS News]]|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-hangs-red-ribbon-for-world-aids-day/|url-status=live|access-date=2 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109023624/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-hangs-red-ribbon-for-world-aids-day/|archive-date=9 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/12/01/white-house-honors-world-aids-day-2012|title=The White House Honors World AIDS Day 2012|date=1 December 2012|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|access-date=2 December 2017|archive-date=3 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203013853/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/12/01/white-house-honors-world-aids-day-2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/11/images/20071130_d-0117-6-772v.html|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|title=A red ribbon adorns the North Portico of the White House Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, in recognition of World AIDS Day and the commitment by President George W. Bush and his administration to fighting and preventing HIV/AIDS in America and the world. White House photo by Eric Draper|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|access-date=2 December 2017|archive-date=3 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203013852/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/11/images/20071130_d-0117-6-772v.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Since 1993, the President of the United States has made an official [[List of observances in the United States by presidential proclamation|proclamation]] for World AIDS Day (see section [[#US Presidential Proclamations for World AIDS Day]] for copies of those proclamations). On 30 November 2017, President [[Donald Trump]] along with local community college students proclaimed World AIDS Day for 1 December.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Office of the Press Secretary|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/11/30/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-december-1-2017-world-aids-day|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130213005/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/11/30/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-december-1-2017-world-aids-day|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 November 2017|title=President Donald J. Trump Proclaims December 1, 2017, as World AIDS Day|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|publisher=[[White House]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|date=30 November 2017|access-date=1 December 2017|author1-link=White House Office of the Press Secretary}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-world-aids-day_us_5a2073ace4b0a02abe8fc6b3|title=Trump Excludes LGBTQ People From World AIDS Day Proclamation|first=Curtis M.|last=Wong|work=[[HuffPost]]|publisher=[[Oath Inc.]]|location=[[New York City]]|date=30 November 2017|access-date=1 December 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201211637/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-world-aids-day_us_5a2073ace4b0a02abe8fc6b3|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Themes==
All the World AIDS Day <ref>{{cite web|last=Hoover|first=Wiralspace|date=November 25, 2021|url=https://wiralspace.com/world-aids-day-2021/|title=World Aids Day 2021|access-date=November 25, 2021|archive-date=25 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125182608/https://wiralspace.com/world-aids-day-2021/|url-status=live}}</ref> campaigns focus on a specific theme, chosen following consultations with [[UNAIDS]], [[WHO]], and a large number of grassroots, national and international agencies involved in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. {{asof|2008|post=,}} each year's theme is chosen by the Global Steering Committee of the World AIDS Campaign (WAC).<ref name="Speicher" />

For each World AIDS Day from 2005 through 2010, the theme was "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise", designed to encourage political leaders to keep their commitment to achieving universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support by the year 2010.<ref name="Speicher" />

{{asof|2012|post=,}} the multi-year theme for World AIDS Day is "Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero deaths from AIDS-related illness. Zero discrimination."<ref>World Health Organization, [https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2012/aids_20121129/en/ World Aids Day 2012: Closing in on global HIV targets.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715164553/https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2012/aids_20121129/en/ |date=15 July 2020 }} Accessed 8 April 2014</ref> The US Federal theme for the year 2014 was "Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-Free Generation".<ref>{{cite web|title=Aids Day 2014|date=December 2014|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/world-aids-day-2014-history-significance-theme-top-10-must-read-facts-virus-615663|publisher=ibtimes|access-date=1 December 2014|archive-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214064310/http://www.ibtimes.co.in/world-aids-day-2014-history-significance-theme-top-10-must-read-facts-virus-615663|url-status=live}}</ref>

The themes are not limited to a single day but are used year-round in international efforts to highlight HIV/AIDS awareness within the context of other major global events including the [[Group of Eight|G8 Summit]], as well as local campaigns like the Student Stop AIDS Campaign in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-01|title=World AIDS Day: HIV / AIDS Can Be Cured by Practicing Sat-Bhakti|url=https://news.jagatgururampalji.org/world-aids-day/|access-date=2021-12-01|website=SA News Channel|language=en-US}}</ref>

===World AIDS Day Themes===
[[Image:WHredribbonNorthPortico.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A large [[red ribbon]] hangs between columns in the north portico of the [[White House]] for World AIDS Day, 30 November 2007]]
[[Image:Condom on Obelisk, Buenos Aires.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A 67 m long [[condom]] sculpture on the [[Obelisco de Buenos Aires|Obelisk of Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]], part of an awareness campaign for the 2005 World AIDS Day]]

{| class="wikitable"
! No
! Year 
! Theme<ref name="MDOT">{{cite web |url=http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/hiv/worldaidsday/index.html |title=World AIDS Day |access-date=7 February 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201154038/http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/hiv/worldaidsday/index.html |archive-date=1 December 2016 }}, Minnesota Department of Health</ref>
! Aspect of Note
|-
| 1
| style="text-align:center;"| 1988
| style="width:428px;"| Communication<ref>{{Cite web|title=World AIDS Day – December 1, 1998|url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00055700.htm#:~:text=of%20e-mail.-,World%20AIDS%20Day%20--%20December%201,%201998,Day,%20December%201,%201998.|access-date=29 November 2020|website=www.cdc.gov|archive-date=10 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210042503/https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00055700.htm#:~:text=of%20e-mail.-,World%20AIDS%20Day%20--%20December%201,%201998,Day,%20December%201,%201998.|url-status=live}}</ref>
| The first year celebrated and the first time with UN recognition.
|-
| 2
| style="text-align:center;"| 1989
| style="width:428px;"| Youth<ref>{{Cite web|title=World AIDS Day|url=https://www.unaids.org/en/World_AIDS_Day|access-date=2021-12-01|website=unaids.org|language=en}}</ref>
| 
|-
| 3
| style="text-align:center;"| 1990
| style="width:428px;"| Women and AIDS
| 
|-
| 4
| style="text-align:center;"| 1991
| style="width:428px;"| Sharing the Challenge
| 
|-
| 5
| style="text-align:center;"| 1992
| style="width:428px;"| Community Commitment
| 
|-
| 6
| style="text-align:center;"| 1993
| style="width:428px;"| Time to Act 
| 
|-
| 7
| style="text-align:center;"| 1994
| style="width:428px;"| AIDS and the Family
| 
|-
| 8
| style="text-align:center;"| 1995
| style="width:428px;"| Shared Rights, Shared Responsibilities
| 
|-
| 9
| style="text-align:center;"| 1996
| style="width:428px;"| One World. One Hope.
| 
|-
| 10
| style="text-align:center;"| 1997
| style="width:428px;"| Children Living in a World with AIDS
| 
|-
| 11
| style="text-align:center;"| 1998
| style="width:428px;"| Force for Change: World AIDS Campaign With Young People
| 
|-
| 12
| style="text-align:center;"| 1999
| style="width:428px;"| Listen, Learn, Live: World AIDS Campaign with Children & Young People
| 
|-
| 13
| style="text-align:center;"| 2000
| style="width:428px;"| AIDS: Men Make a Difference
| 
|-
| 14
| style="text-align:center;"| 2001
| style="width:428px;"| I Care. Do You?
| 
|-
| 15
| style="text-align:center;"| 2002
| style="width:428px;"| Stigma and Discrimination
| 
|-
| 16
| style="text-align:center;"| 2003
| style="width:428px;"| Stigma and Discrimination
| 
|-
| 17
| style="text-align:center;"| 2004
| style="width:428px;"| Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS
| 
|-
| 18
| style="text-align:center;"| 2005
| style="width:428px;"| Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise
| 
|-
| 19
| style="text-align:center;"| 2006
| style="width:428px;"| Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise&nbsp;– Accountability
| 
|-
| 20
| style="text-align:center;"| 2007
| style="width:428px;"| Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise&nbsp;– Leadership
| {{Wikinews|position=left|World AIDS Day events held around the globe}}
|-
| 21
| style="text-align:center;"| 2008
| style="width:428px;"| Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise&nbsp;– Lead&nbsp;– Empower&nbsp;– Deliver<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/FeatureStories/archive/2008/WAD_2008_Statements.asp |title=Dr. Peter Piot, "2008 World AIDS Day statements", Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 30 November 2008 |publisher=UNAIDS |date=30 November 2008 |access-date=5 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325222544/http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/Resources/FeatureStories/archive/2008/WAD_2008_Statements.asp |archive-date=25 March 2009 }}</ref>
| 
|-
| 22
| style="text-align:center;"| 2009
| style="width:428px;"| Universal Access and Human Rights<ref name="avert">[http://www.avert.org/world-aids-day.htm World AIDS Day] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016210347/http://www.avert.org/world-aids-day.htm |date=16 October 2015 }} avert.org</ref>
| 
|-
| 23
| style="text-align:center;"| 2010
| style="width:428px;"| Universal Access and Human Rights<ref name="avert"/>
| 
|-
| 24
| style="text-align:center;"| 2011
| style="width:428px;"| Getting to Zero<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150701093011/http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/world-aids-day/world-aids-day-2011/ World AIDS Day 2011]}} [[World AIDS Campaign]]</ref>
| 
|-
| 25
| style="text-align:center;"| 2012
| style="width:428px;"| Together We Will End AIDS<ref>[http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/unaidsaids2012 World AIDS Day 2012] [[UNAids]]</ref>
| 
|-
| 26
| style="text-align:center;"| 2013
| style="width:428px;"| Zero Discrimination<ref>[http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/worldaidsday2013 World AIDS Day 2013] [[UNAids]]</ref>
| Via this day's "Zero Discrimination" campaign, [[UNAIDS]] launched the first UN "[[Zero Discrimination Day]]" held on 1 March 2014 <ref>{{cite web|title=Gender, equity and human rights|publisher=[[World Health Organization]] (WHO)|language=en|website=www.who.int|url=https://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/news/zero-discrimination-day/en/|access-date=4 January 2021|archive-date=27 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627015111/https://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/news/zero-discrimination-day/en/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 27
| style="text-align:center;"| 2014
| style="width:428px;"| Close the Gap<ref>[http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/WAD2014 World AIDS Day 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130032350/https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/WAD2014 |date=30 November 2021 }} [[UNAids]]</ref>
|
|-
| 28
| style="text-align:center;"| 2015
| style="width:428px;"| On the Fast Track to End AIDS<ref>[http://www.unaids.org/wad2015/ World AIDS Day 2015] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130032323/https://www.unaids.org/wad2015/ |date=30 November 2021 }} [[UNAids]]</ref>
|
|-
| 29
| style="text-align:center;"| 2016
| style="width:428px;"| Hands up for #HIVprevention<ref>[http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/WAD2016 World AIDS Day 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130032346/https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/WAD2016 |date=30 November 2021 }} [[UNAids]]</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2017
| style="width:428px;"| My Health, My Right<ref>[http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2017/november/20171106_myhealth-myright UNAIDS launches 2017 World AIDS Day campaign-right to health] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130032352/https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2017/november/20171106_myhealth-myright |date=30 November 2021 }} [[UNAids]]</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2018
| style="width:428px;"| Know your Status<ref>[https://knowyourstatus.unaids.org/ Know your HIV status] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130032411/https://knowyourstatus.unaids.org/ |date=30 November 2021 }} [[UNAids]]</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2019
| style="width:428px;"| Communities Make the Difference<ref>[https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/campaigns/WAD_2019 Communities make the difference] [[UNAids]]</ref> 
| {{Wikispore|position=left|Event:World AIDS Day 2019}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2020
| style="width:428px;"| Global Solidarity Shared Responsibility<ref>{{cite web|title=World AIDS Day 2020|author=Jessi Lewis|website=starobserver.com.au|publisher=[[Sydney Star Observer]]|date=1 December 2020|url=https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/world-aids-day-2020/198718|language=en|access-date=4 January 2021|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125041301/https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/world-aids-day-2020/198718|url-status=live}}</ref> 
| Described as "like no other", due to [[COVID-19]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Press Statement – World AIDS Day 2020 message from UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima|url=https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2020/november/world-aids-day-2020-message-from-executive-director-winnie-byanyima|website=www.unaids.org|publisher=[[UNAIDS]]|language=en|access-date=4 January 2021|archive-date=30 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130073141/https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2020/november/world-aids-day-2020-message-from-executive-director-winnie-byanyima|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2021
| style="width=428px;"|End inequalities. End AIDS. End pandemics. (UN)<ref name="UNAIDS 2020">{{cite web | title=End inequalities. End AIDS. End pandemics. | website=UNAIDS | date=2020-12-01 | url=https://www.unaids.org/en/2021-world-aids-day | access-date=2021-11-30 | archive-date=27 November 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127020149/https://www.unaids.org/en/2021-world-aids-day | url-status=live }}</ref>
Ending the HIV Epidemic: Equitable Access, Everyone's Voice (US)<ref name="HIV.gov 2021">{{cite web | title=World AIDS Day 2021: Ending the HIV Epidemic: Equitable Access, Everyone's Voice | website=HIV.gov | date=2021-11-01 | url=https://www.hiv.gov/blog/world-aids-day-2021-ending-hiv-epidemic-equitable-access-everyone-s-voice | access-date=2021-11-30 | archive-date=28 November 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128181505/https://www.hiv.gov/blog/world-aids-day-2021-ending-hiv-epidemic-equitable-access-everyone-s-voice | url-status=live }}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2022
| style="width=428px;"|Equalize<ref>{{cite web |title=Equalize - World AIDS Day 2022 |url=https://www.unaids.org/en/2022-world-aids-day |publisher=United Nations |website=UNAIDS |date=1 December 2022 |access-date=15 December 2022}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2023
| style="width=428px;"|Let Communities Lead<ref>{{cite web |title=Let Communities Lead - World AIDS Day 2023 |url=https://www.unaids.org/en/2023-world-aids-day |publisher=United Nations |website=UNAIDS |date=1 December 2023 |access-date=10 December 2023}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2024
| style="width=428px;"|Take the Rights Path<ref>{{cite web |title=Take the Rights Path - World AIDS Day 2024 |url=https://www.unaids.org/en/2024-world-aids-day |publisher=United Nations |website=UNAIDS |date=1 December 2023 |access-date=1 December 2024}}</ref>
| {{Wikinews|position=left|World AIDS Day 2024}}
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==See also==
* [[AIDS Awareness Week]]
* [[List of LGBT awareness periods]]
* [[National AIDS Testing Day]] (United States)
* [[Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS]]
* [[World Health Day]]
* [[Day Without Art]]
* [[HIV.gov]]
* [[World AIDS Vaccine Day]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|World AIDS Day}}
* [http://www.worldaidsday.org/ World AIDS Day – UK site]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150714101100/http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/ The World AIDS Campaign]}}
* [http://www.emro.who.int/world-aids-campaigns/world-aids-campaigns-2012/overview.html World AIDS Day Campaign – WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region]
* [http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Search.do?descCvPk=23325 World Aids Day posters from the AIDS Posters Collection – UCLA Library]
* [http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/hiv-aids/lang--en/index.htm The ILO's Getting to Zero at the workplace campaign]

===US Presidential Proclamations for World AIDS Day===
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* [https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/11/30/a-proclamation-on-world-aids-day-2023/ 2023 Proclamation]
* [https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/11/30/a-proclamation-on-world-aids-day-2022/ 2022 Proclamation]
* [https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/11/30/a-proclamation-on-world-aids-day-2021/ 2021 Proclamation]
* [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-world-aids-day-2020 2020 Proclamation]
* [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day-2019 2019 Proclamation]
* [https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day-2018 2018 Proclamation]
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 9680|2017 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 9548|2016 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/30/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day-2015 2015 Proclamation]
* [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/29/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day-2014 2014 Proclamation] 
* [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/11/27/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day-2013 2013 Proclamation] 
* [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/29/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day-2012 2012 Proclamation]
* [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/01/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day-2011 2011 Proclamation]
* [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/30/presidential-proclamation-world-aids-day 2010 Proclamation]
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 8459|2009 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 8325|2008 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 8207|2007 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 8087|2006 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 7967|2005 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-2004-12-06/pdf/WCPD-2004-12-06-Pg2891.pdf 2004 Proclamation]
* [http://2001-2009.state.gov/s/gac/rl/rm/26768.htm 2003 Proclamation]
* [http://2001-2009.state.gov/g/oes/rls/rm/2002/15626.htm 2002 Proclamation]
* [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-115/pdf/STATUTE-115-Pg2873.pdf 2001 Proclamation]
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 7382|2000 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* [http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/aidsday.html 1999 Proclamation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010725050621/http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/aidsday.html |date=25 July 2001 }}
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 7153|1998 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-1997-12-08/pdf/WCPD-1997-12-08-Pg1941.pdf 1997 Proclamation]
* [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-1996-12-02/pdf/WCPD-1996-12-02-Pg2439.pdf 1996 Proclamation]
* [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-1995-12-04/pdf/WCPD-1995-12-04-Pg2091.pdf 1995 Proclamation]
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 6759|1994 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
* {{Ws | [[s:Proclamation 6632|1993 Proclamation]] |ps=no}}
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