World AIDS Awareness Month is held in December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV.

1. INTERNATIONAL AIDS
AWARENESS MONTH

2. WORLD AIDS AWARENESS MONTH
World AIDS Awareness Month is held in
December each year and is an opportunity for
people worldwide to:-
 unite in the fight against HIV
 show their support for people living with HIV
 commemorate people who have died

3. THEME OF WORLD AIDS DAY 2016 :
HIV STIGMA: NOT RETRO
JUST WRONG

4. OBJECTIVES : 2016
AIDS awareness programme 2016 aims to
strengthen the response to HIV and AIDS by:-
1. Working together and reaching the people who
still lack access to:-
 comprehensive treatment
 prevention and care
 support services

5. 2. Strengthening the commitment to HIV research
and evidence-based interventions.
3. Uniting all HIV stakeholders and overcoming
injustice caused by violence and the exclusion of
people on the basis of:-
 gender, class and race
 nationality, age and geographic location
 sexual orientation and HIV status

6. 4. Repealing laws that infringe on people’s human
rights and deny communities the ability to
participate in the world as equal.
5. Reminding us that all our gains will be lost if we
do not continue to push forward and build a strong
global movement to change the course of the
epidemic.