World AIDS Vaccine Day

World AIDS Vaccine Day

World AIDS Vaccine Day, also known as HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, is observed annually on May 18. AIDS vaccine advocates mark the day by promoting the continued urgent need for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS. They acknowledge and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, supporters and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective AIDS vaccine and urge the international community to recognize the importance of investing in new technologies as a critical element of a comprehensive response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The concept of World AIDS Vaccine Day is rooted in a May 18, 1997 commencement speech at Morgan State University made by then-President Bill Clinton. Clinton challenged the world to set new goals in the emerging age of science and technology and develop an AIDS vaccine within the next decade stating, “Only a truly effective, preventive HIV vaccine can limit and eventually eliminate the threat of AIDS.”

The first World AIDS Vaccine Day was observed on May 18, 1998 to commemorate the anniversary of Clinton’s speech, and the tradition continues today. Each year communities around the globe hold a variety of activities on World AIDS Vaccine Day to raise awareness for AIDS vaccines, educate communities about HIV prevention and research for an AIDS vaccine and bring attention to the ways in which ordinary people can be a part of the international effort to stem the pandemic.

ee also

– HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)

– International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

– National Institutes of Health (NIH)

– Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI)

External links

– [http://www.cnn.com/US/9705/18/clinton.aids/goal.14sec.wav Bill Clinton's commencement speech at Morgan State University]
– [http://www.avac.org AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)]
– [http://www.aidsvaccineclearinghouse.org AIDS Vaccine Clearinghouse]
– [http://www.bethegeneration.org/ Be the Generation]
– [http://www.vrc.nih.gov/ The Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC)]
– [http://www.iavi.org.in/ International AIDS Vaccine Initiative – India Website]
– [http://www.kaviuon.org/ Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative (KAVI)]
– [http://www.saavi.org.za/ The South Africa AIDS Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI)]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • List of vaccine topics — Flu vaccine This is a list of vaccine related topics. A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease causing microorganism, and is often made… …   Wikipedia

  • AIDS denialism — refers to the views of a loosely connected group of individuals and organizations who deny that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV/AIDS denialists prefer the terms rethinker or… …   Wikipedia

  • AIDS — For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Classification and external resources …   Wikipedia

  • World Affairs — ▪ 2004 Introduction Dominating the international scene in 2003 were the U.S. led war in Iraq and the worldwide reaction to the invasion, which occurred without the sanction of the UN Security Council; the ouster of Charles Taylor in Liberia; the… …   Universalium

  • AIDS — /aydz/, n. Pathol. a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi s sarcoma, and to neurological disorders:… …   Universalium

  • AIDS Clinical Trials Group — The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) is the largest HIV clinical trials organization in the world, playing a major role in setting standards of care for HIV infection and opportunistic diseases related to HIV and AIDS in the United States and… …   Wikipedia

  • World Health Organization — WHO redirects here. For other uses, see Who (disambiguation). World Health Organization منظمة الصحة العالمية 世界卫生组织 Organisation mondiale de la Santé Всемирная организация здравоохранения Organización Mundial de la Salud …   Wikipedia

  • HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China — The HIV/AIDS pandemic scene in East Asia is largely dominated by China. Much of the current spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in China has been through intravenous drug use and prostitution. In China, the number of affected by HIV… …   Wikipedia

  • OPV AIDS hypothesis — Main articles: AIDS origin and AIDS origins opposed to scientific consensus The oral polio vaccine (OPV) AIDS hypothesis argues that the AIDS pandemic originated from live polio vaccines prepared in chimpanzee tissue cultures and then… …   Wikipedia

  • Discredited AIDS origins theories — This article contains hypotheses not supported by scientific evidence. For current scientifically based hypotheses, see Origin of AIDS. Various conspiracy theories and other such hypotheses have arisen to speculate about the origins of HIV and… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”