The World Health Organization has designated which day of the year as World AIDS Day.

Speaking of AIDS, it is definitely a frightening disease, and we will not be able to solve it for a long time to come. So we don't know anything about AIDS, and it is precisely for this reason that we should increase the propaganda of AIDS. So, do you know when AIDS Day is in 2020? Today, let's take a look at the detailed introduction of AIDS Day in 2020.

AIDS Day ~ June 5438+February 0, 20201

AIDS is a serious infectious disease, which is caused by HIV, that is, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) invades the human body, destroys the immune function of the human body, causes many incurable infections and tumors in the human body, and finally leads to the death of the infected person. The full medical name of AIDS is "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome" (AIDS for short). According to UNAIDS 200 1 statistics, there are 3,665,438+million people infected with HIV in the world recently, and about 22 million people around the world have died of AIDS in the past 20 years. Looking back on the history of human diseases, there are frightening and shocking "century pandemics" in almost every era, such as the Black Death in17th century, cholera, yellow fever and tuberculosis in18th century to19th century, and cancer in 20th century, but the physical and psychological impact brought by AIDS is unprecedented. In order to attract global attention to the AIDS epidemic, the World Health Organization has designated 65438+February 1 as World AIDS Day every year, so as to promote the attention of countries around the world to AIDS and help people who are unfortunately infected with AIDS.

The concept of AIDS Day originated from 1988. At the summit of AIDS prevention plan of global health ministers, since 198 1 found the first case of HIV infection in the world, in just over 30 years, AIDS has become a major public health and social problem, which has attracted great attention from the World Health Organization and governments around the world.

In order to call on people all over the world to take action and unite to fight AIDS, 198865438 1 October, the World Health Organization held a ministerial high-level meeting on "Global AIDS Prevention and Control" in London, which was attended by more than 100 countries, and announced that 65438+February1day was the world every year. 1996 1, UNAIDS was established in Geneva; 1997 UNAIDS renamed "World AIDS Day" as "World AIDS Prevention and Control Publicity Campaign", making AIDS prevention and control publicity throughout the year.