• Every year December 01 is recognised as World AIDS Day.
• The theme for this year was ‘Right to Health’.
• As per WHO data around 36.7 million people are living with HIV. WHO also gave the slogan ‘Everybody Counts’ to advocate access to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines and diagnostics.

The World AIDS Day was first recognised in 1987 by the World Health Organisation. It is one of the eight official global public health campaigns marked by the WHO.