AIDS Day designates on 1 December every year since 1988.
Theme for World AIDS Day 2022: It is also observed to extend support to those who are fighting AIDS. World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 with a new theme every year and this year’s theme is “Equalize.”
World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and those who lost their lives to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-related illness. It is also observe to raise awareness among people in the fight against HIV.
The World AIDS Day theme for 2022 is “equalize”. According to UNAIDS, “The slogan is a call to action.
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.
1. Mosquitoes spread HIV.
Because the virus is passed through blood, people have been worried that they could get it from biting or bloodsucking insects. Several studies show that doesn’t happen, even in areas with lots of mosquitoes and cases of HIV.
When bugs bite, they don’t inject the blood of the person or animal they bit before you. Also, HIV lives for only a short time inside them.
2. Oral sex is just as risky when it comes to HIV.
The risk from oral sex is almost negligible compare with other types of sex. In theory, it seems possible if your partner has HIV, but in reality, that is not the case.
3. I’m straight and don’t use IV drugs. I won’t get HIV.
Most men get HIV through sexual contact with other men. But you can get the virus from heterosexual contact with an infected person, too: About 1 in 6 men and 3 in 4 women do. Women who have sex with women have the lowest risk of transmission.
4. I could tell if my partner was HIV-positive.
You can have HIV without any symptoms for years. The only way for you or your partner to know if you’re positive is to get test. The long period of asymptomatic infection is why the CDC recommends that everyone between 18 and 64 be test at least once as part of routine blood work.
5. I don’t need to worry about getting HIV. Drugs will keep me well.
Antiretroviral drugs (ART) improve the lives of many people who have HIV and help them live longer. But many of these drugs are expensive and have serious side effects. There’s no cure for HIV. And drug-resistant strains of HIV can make treatment harder.
Prevention is cheaper and easier than managing a lifelong condition and the problems it brings.
6. I’m HIV-positive. My life is over.
In the early years, when the disease was An epidemic, the death rate from AIDS was extremely high. But today’s drugs allow people who have HIV or even AIDS to live much longer, normal, and productive lives. If you start drug treatment right away and take it correctly, it’s possible you won’t ever develop AIDS. And you may live as long as you would have without the virus.
HIV could make you more likely to get diseases like cancer, heart disease, and kidney disease. So protect yourself with a healthy lifestyle. And tell your doctor about any other health problems you have. HIV drugs can interfere with other medications and make some conditions harder to control.
7. AIDS is genocide.
HIV isn’t a government conspiracy to kill minorities. Rates of infection are higher in African American and Latino people, but that may be due in part to less access to health care and other social and economic factors.
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