20 18 12 1 is the 3rd1World AIDS Day. The theme of this time is to actively detect, recognize and prevent AIDS, and enjoy health. World AIDS Day is a memorial day to raise people's awareness of AIDS and encourage people to work together to eliminate AIDS. The publicity of World AIDS Day can arouse people's sympathy and understanding for HIV-infected people and AIDS patients, and call on people all over the world to act together to support AIDS prevention and anti-discrimination work.
In order to raise people's awareness of AIDS, the World Health Organization designated 65438+February 1 in 1988 as World AIDS Day, calling on countries and international organizations to hold relevant activities on this day to publicize and popularize AIDS prevention and control knowledge. The symbol of World AIDS Day is a red ribbon, which symbolizes the public's concern and support for HIV-infected people and AIDS patients.
Background of the establishment of World AIDS Day
AIDS is a malignant infectious disease with high mortality caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). After HIV invades the human body, it can destroy the immune system of the human body, making infected people gradually lose their resistance to various diseases and even lead to death, which is one of the most difficult problems in medicine at present.
In order to call on people all over the world to take action and unite to fight AIDS, 1988, global health ministers put forward the proposal of setting up World AIDS Day at the summit of AIDS prevention plan, and called on all countries and international organizations to hold related activities on this day to publicize and popularize AIDS prevention knowledge. Since then, this concept has been adopted by governments, international organizations and charities all over the world.
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