AIDS Awareness Week
AIDS Awareness Week is a week, the last in November, when extra effort is made to raise AIDS awareness.
The 2016 date is November 21 – December 1.[1]
History and scope
In 1984 Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, declared the first AIDS Awareness Week.[2] In the same year, in Toronto, ACT held an AIDS Awareness Week, following on form New York's Aid AIDS Week[3]
Across Canada AIDS Awareness Week is the last week in November.[4]
In 1991 the US President declared, in Proclamation 6305, that June 10–16 was to be Paediatric Aids Awareness Week.[5]
[World] AIDS Awareness Week is held in Perth, Australia.[6]
Nation Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week has been extant in Canada from at least 2014.[7][8]
Latterly some organizations have used the name "HIV/AIDS Awareness Week".
Other observances
Aids Awareness Month has been declared in various countries. Also World Aids Day is an international UN sponsored observance.
The US government, in the form of aids.gov, presents an all-year-round diversity AIDS Awareness Calendar, for example for 2016:[9]
- National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – 7 February
- National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – 10 March
- National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – 20 March
- National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day – 10 April
- National Transgender HIV Testing Day – 18 April
- HIV Vaccine Awareness Day – 18 May
- National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – 19 May
- Hepatitis Testing Day – 19 May
- HIV Long-Term Survivors Day – 5 June
- National HIV Testing Day – 27 June
- National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day – 18 September
- National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – 27 September
- National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day – 15 October
- World AIDS Day – 1 December
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.nhcsociety.ca/aids-awareness-week
- ↑ Mick Sinclair (1 September 2003). San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History. Signal Books. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-902669-65-6.
- ↑ Ann Silversides (2003). AIDS Activist: Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community. Between The Lines. pp. 77ff. ISBN 978-1-896357-73-7.
- ↑ http://www.hivedmonton.com/events/world-aids-day-aids-awareness-week
- ↑ The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
- ↑ http://www.waaids.com/latest-news/world-aids-awareness-week-2015-wrap-up.html
- ↑ http://www.positivelite.com/component/zoo/item/national-aboriginal-aids-awareness-week-2014
- ↑ http://aboriginalaidsawareness.com/
- ↑ https://www.aids.gov/news-and-events/awareness-days/