In order to raise people's awareness of AIDS, the World Health Organization has designated 1988 1 as World AIDS Day every year, calling on countries and international organizations to organize relevant activities on this day to publicize and popularize AIDS prevention and control knowledge.

Since 198 1 found the world's first case of AIDS, 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.

1988 10. In order to appeal to people all over the world to take action and unite to fight AIDS, the World Health Organization and 100 countries held a ministerial high-level meeting on "Global AIDS Prevention and Control" in London, and announced the annual meeting of 12. 65438+February 1 day is World AIDS Day.

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The purpose of setting up World AIDS Day is:

First, let people know that AIDS can be controlled and prevented on a global scale;

Second, let everyone know that the most important thing to prevent AIDS is that everyone should be responsible for their own actions;

Third, through the publicity of AIDS Day, people will have sympathy and understanding for HIV-infected people, because they are physically and mentally hurt, and some HIV-infected people may be passive and innocent;

Fourth, I hope everyone will support the AIDS prevention and control plans formulated by their respective countries, so as to arouse people all over the world to work together to support this work.

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