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This year's World AIDS Day theme is "One World, One Hope." The theme emphasizes the need for a unified global effort at prevention and treatment and calls attention to the hopeful news that is emerging about new drug treatments and successful prevention programs. This theme was designated by UNAIDS, the new United Nation's body coordinating the international response to the pandemic.
UNAIDS, estimates that currently 22 million adults and children are living with HIV/AIDS, and each day 8,500 are newly infected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in the U.S. between 650,000 and 900,000 are currently living with HIV.
In explaining the meaning of World AIDS Day, Richard L. Wittenberg, President and CEO of the American Association for World Health (AAWH)*, observed: "World AIDS Day has been celebrated annually on December 1 in nearly every country around the globe since 1988, when health ministers from around the world convened a summit meeting which resulted in this day of observance to draw greater international attention to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic. Each year on December 1, citizens of the world observe World AIDS Day to remind us all of the challenge of HIV/AIDS and to urge community, national and international unity in addressing this major public health challenge. Each year a new theme is explored." Here in the United States, AAWH coordinates the U.S. observance of World AIDS Day.
* The American Association for World Health is the U.S. support organization for the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. AAWH is dedicated to promoting public health education and initiatives on a wide variety of health issues and publishes comprehensive educational materials which are disseminated across the United States to stimulate grassroots activities at the community level. Each year AAWH coordinates the U.S. World AIDS Day program in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a national World AIDS Day Advisory Committee. SOURCE American Association for World Health
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