World AIDS DAY 2012

1. World AIDS DAY
2012
Getting to Zero
Dr.T.V.Rao MD
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2. World AIDS Day
• Started on 1st
December 1988,
World AIDS Day is
about raising
money, increasing
awareness,
fighting prejudice
and improving
education
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3. What AIDS Day Means
• World AIDS Day is celebrated around the
world on December 1st each year. It has
become one of the most recognized
international health days and a key
opportunity to raise awareness,
commemorate those who have passed on,
and celebrate victories, such as increased
access to treatment and prevention services.
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4. Beginning of World Aids Day
• 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, SwitzerlandBunn and
Netter took their idea to Dr. Jonathan Mann,
Director of the Global Programme on AIDS (now
known as UNAIDS). Dr. Mann liked the concept,
approved it, and agreed with the
recommendation that the first observance of
World AIDS Day should be 1 December, 1988.
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5. UNAIDS Campaigning
• UNAIDS took the lead on campaigning for
World AIDS Day from its creation until 2004.
From 2004 onwards the World AIDS
Campaign’s Global Steering Committee began
selecting a theme for World AIDS Day in
consultation with civil society, organisations
and government agencies involved in the AIDS
response.
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6. World AIDS Day
• World AIDS Day on 1 December brings
together people from around the world to
raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and
demonstrate international solidarity in the
face of the pandemic. The day is an
opportunity for public and private partners to
spread awareness about the status of the
pandemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS
prevention, treatment and care in high
prevalence countries and around the world.
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7. What is AIDS
• AIDS is a condition resulting
from damage done to the
human immune system by
HIV. It affects tens of millions
of people around the world.
The United Nations' (UN)
World AIDS Day is held on
December 1 each year to
honour the victims of the
AIDS pandemic and focus
attention on the prevention
and treatment of HIV and
AIDS related conditions.
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8. World AIDS Day
• World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each
year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the
AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV
infection. It is common to hold memorials to
honour persons who have died from HIV/AIDS
on this day. Government and health officials
also observe the event, often with speeches or
forums on the AIDS topics
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9. Global prevalence of AIDS
• An estimated 33.4
million people living
with HIV globally and
2.7 million newly
infected in 2008,
countries continue to
rank AIDS high on the
list of the most
important issues facing
the world.
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10. Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
• Stigma and
discrimination are
primary barriers to
universal access to HIV
treatment, care, and
prevention. People
living with HIV often
face discrimination
from health providers,
employers, family
members or friend
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11. Red Ribbon - Symbol
• A simple red ribbon is one
of the most widely
recognized symbols of HIV
and AIDS and the people
who live with these
conditions. The symbol was
presented by the Visual
AIDS Artists Caucus in 1991.
The individuals in this group
wished to remain
anonymous, keep the image
copyright free and create a
symbol to raise
consciousness of HIV and
AIDS.
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12. Significance of Red ribbon
• The symbol of the World AIDS Campaign
consists of a sketched image of a red ribbon
and the words "world aids campaign". The
words "world" and "campaign" are in black
and the word "aids" is in red. The ends of the
ribbon merge into splashes of green, blue,
purple and orange. The splashes of colour can
be interpreted in a variety of ways, but are
often taken to indicate the diversity of people
living with HIV and AIDS.
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13. Global theme for 2009 and 2010
• The global theme for 2009 and 2010 World
AIDS Day is "Universal Access and Human
Rights" chosen by The World AIDS Campaign. This
theme encourages us to deepen
understanding, develop partnerships and
challenge discriminatory laws, policies and
practices that stand in the way of access for all
to HIV prevention, treatment, care and
support
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14. World AIDS Day 2012
• Between 2011-2015, World AIDS
Days will have the theme of
"Getting to zero: zero new HIV
infections. Zero discrimination.
Zero AIDS related deaths". The
World AIDS Campaign focus on
"Zero AIDS related deaths"
signifies a push towards greater
access to treatment for all; a call
for governments to act now. It is a
call to honor promises like the
Abuja declaration and for African
governments to at least hit
targets for domestic spending on
health and HIV.
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15. Some one some where infected in few
seconds with aids
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16. Women living with HIV/AIDS face strikingly high
levels of stigma
• The online survey,
conducted by Harris
Interactive for amfAR, The
Foundation for AIDS
Research, questioned nearly
5,000 respondents ages 18-
44 and covered HIV risk and
responsibility, impact of
gender-based violence, and
women’s access to
healthcare and health
information, as well as
attitudes towards HIV-
positive women.
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17. Red Ribbon Express’ rides the rails to raise youth AIDS
awareness in India
• The aim behind the
project is to bring the
HIV/Aids-affected
persons to the
mainstream for socio-
economic development
then merely showing it
as a medical or public
health issue, Das said.
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18. National HIV Testing Day (NHTD)
• National HIV Testing
Day (NHTD) is an annual
campaign coordinated
by the National
Association of People
with AIDS to encourage
people of all ages to
"Take the Test, Take
Control."
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19. Youth contribute for HIV prevention
• Young people are
leading the prevention
revolution by taking
definitive action to
protect themselves
from HIV. A change is
happening among
young people across the
world, especially in
parts of sub-Saharan
Africa.
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20. High-burden countries that have achieved a 25% reduction in
HIV
prevalence among young people by 2010
• 1. Botswana ‡
• 2. Côte d’Ivoire
• 3. Ethiopia
• 4. Kenya
• 5. Malawi
• 6. Namibia
• 7. south Africa‡
• 8. Tanzania‡
• 9. Zambia‡
• 10. Zimbabwe‡
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21. Declines of more than 25%
• 11. Burundi
• 12. Lesotho
• 13. Rwanda
• 14. Bahamas
• 15. Haiti
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22. Protection from AIDS
• Protect yourself or your
partner by using a
condom during sexual
intercourse If you are a
partner are at risk, avoid
mouth contact with the
penis, vagina, or rectum
Avoid all sexual activities
which could cause cuts or
tears in the linings of the
rectum, vagina, or penis
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23. Protection from aids
• If you have been infected
with the AIDS virus. Do
not share intravenous
drug equipment Antiviral
medications may be
prescribed for
unanticipated sexual or
injection drug use
exposure to HIV.
Treatment for the
exposed person must
begin within 72 hours
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24. Antiretroviral therapy
• Standard antiretroviral
therapy (ART) consists of
the use of at least three
antiretroviral (ARV) drugs
to maximally suppress the
HIV virus and stop the
progression of HIV
disease. Huge reductions
have been seen in rates of
death and suffering when
use is made of a potent
ARV regimen
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25. New UNAIDS Outlook
• The new UNAIDS Outlook
report outlines a radically
simplified HIV treatment
platform called
Treatment 2.0 that could
decrease the number of
AIDS-related deaths
drastically and could also
greatly reduce the
number of new HIV
infections.
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26. UNAIDS call on countries to implement
• It calls on countries to
implement a
comprehensive set of
programmes that put young
people’s leadership at the
centre of national
responses, to provide
rights-based sexual and
reproductive health
education and services and
to empower young people
to prevent sexual and other
transmission of HIV
infection among their peers
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27. UNAIDS Champion issues on AIDS
• UNAIDS urges the
removal of all punitive
laws, policies, practices,
stigma and discrimination
that block effective
responses to AIDS
including in the areas of
sex work, travel
restrictions, homophobia
and criminalization of HIV
transmission.
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28. HIV breakthrough as scientists discover new vaccine
to prevent infection
• The world's largest HIV/Aids vaccine
trial of more than 16,000
volunteers was the first in which
infection has been prevented,
according to the US army, which
sponsored the trial with the
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
• A medical trial in Thailand has
raised hopes of a major
breakthrough in the fight against
Aids after scientists said an
experimental vaccine had
reduced the risk of HIV infection
by a third.
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29. Swedish Study of HIV Vaccine
• A Swedish HIV vaccine
study conducted by
researchers at Karolinska
Institutet (KI), Karolinska
University Hospital and
the Swedish Institute for
Infectious Disease Control
(SMI) has produced
surprisingly good results.
Over 90 per cent of the
subjects in the phase 1
trials developed an
immune response to HIV.
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30. New HIV Vaccine hope
• A team of scientists in the US
has discovered two new
antibodies that could lead to
an HIV vaccine. Researchers
from the Scripps Institute
in California, the International
Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
and US-based biotech
companies Theraclone
Sciences and Monogram
Biosciences discovered these
two broadly neutralising
antibodies using high-
throughput screening of
serum from patients infected
with HIV.
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31. AIDS space connects the patients
• AIDS space is an online
community for
connecting people,
sharing knowledge, and
accessing services for
the 33.4 million people
living with HIV and the
millions who are part of
the response.
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32. FACEBOOK and AIDSDAY
• On World AIDS Day, we're
asking these people to
come together to show
their support in the fight
against AIDS in Africa.
Let's turn Face book (RED)
— you can change your
profile picture to any of
the (RED) images at our
Face book.
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33. Google, Twitter call attention to World AIDS Day
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34. We all should be united to control
AIDS
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35. Bill Gates Remains Optimistic About AIDS Fight
• “We all celebrate the
five million people
receiving antiretroviral
treatment, up from just
half-million just 6 years
ago. We all celebrate
that since 2001 the rate
of infection has fallen
17 percent. It’s not
enough, but it’s
certainly a move in the
right direction.”
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36. The best gift to AIDS Patient
Be kind
• Sometimes I have
a terrible feeling
that I am dying
not from the virus,
but from being
untouchable.
Amanda Heggs
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37. Current Global Trends 2012 on AIDS
• Global prevalence of HIV rose slightly in 2011,
according to figures published today in the 2012
edition of the UNAIDS Global Report, but the
number of new infections showed a slight decrease.
• Last year 0.778% of the world's adult population was
recorded as suffering from HIV, up from 0.775% in
2010. New infections fell year-on-year from
2,588,840 to 2,498,754.
• Sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst-affected
region by some way, although adult prevalence
there fell from 4.91% to 4.85%.
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