World Aids Day

World AIDS Day 2023: India has about 2.47 million people living with HIV with approximately 66,000 new cases recorded last year.

World AIDS Day 2023 | 'Let communities lead' is the theme this year

Health pandemics require communities to come together, to curb misinformation, spread awareness, fight stigma, support patients and vulnerable populations, and encourage testing and treatment. WHO's theme for World AIDS Day 2023 is an acknowledgement of the role communities play.

World AIDS Day: How generations of queer people documented the HIV/AIDS crisis

It was only in 1982 that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention renamed 'gay cancer' to AIDS to reflect the fact that it wasn’t isolated to the gay community

World AIDS Day 2022: 5 celebrities who battled AIDS

In honour of World AIDS Day, a look at celebrities who dealt with the chronic immune disease.

In pics: India observes World AIDS Day 2022

World AIDS Day 2022: Every year, on 1 December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember those who lost their lives to AIDS.

World AIDS Day 2022: History, theme, significance

World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 with a new theme every year and this year's theme is “Equalize.”

World's AIDS Day 2021 | Four decades of research but still no vaccine

Covid vaccines began to show promise just months after the novel coronavirus started spreading across the globe but there is still no vaccine to protect people from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Decades of HIV/AIDS research yielded so little progress on a jab to prevent a disease that claimed some 680,000 lives in 2020. With hopes of eradicating AIDS badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, we look at the fight against the deadly condition since its emergence 40 years ago, as the planet marks World AIDS Day on December 1.

World Aids Day 2021: History, theme, significance

World Aids Day 2021: WHO estimates that 3.77 crore people were living with AIDS in 2020. Here's why we observe this day on December 1.

World AIDS Day: Is India winning the fight against new HIV infections?

In India, around 23.49 lakh people were living with HIV as of 2019, with annual new HIV infections showing a 37 percent decline over a decade, according to official estimates.

India can end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030: JP Nadda

"Our concerted efforts and strategies have been able to see a success story of India. We can now safely say that we can end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030," Nadda said during an event to mark World AIDS Day.

Pandemic has finally reached tipping pt: AIDS campaigners

The number of people newly infected with HIV over the last year was lower than the number of HIV-positive people who joined those getting access to the medicines they need to take for life to keep AIDS at bay.