World AIDS Day
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Held on December 1 every year since 1988, World AIDS day seeks to raise global awareness of the AIDS pandemic. AIDS is one of the most urgent health issues challenging the world. By 2017 over 36 million people had HIV. Deaths caused by AIDS total more than 41 million.
The World Health Organization came up with the day in 1987 in Switzerland. The two years that followed focused on children and young people living with HIV and AIDS. Ten years later the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS was created to promote year-round awareness.
