Background: World AIDS Day 
 
      Xinhua on December 1 is the first of 21 World AIDS Day, the theme of this year, the same as last year at the "leadership", intended to highlight the leaders in AIDS prevention and treatment of the role. Slogan "Stop AIDS, to fulfill commitments."

 

     November 28, a medical staff in Manila, the Philippines, the community clinic for a man to make HIV blood test. On the same day, the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization and UNAIDS jointly launched in Manila in the Asia-Pacific region's first professional AIDS prevention and control sites, available to the public in this region the most comprehensive and authoritative information on AIDS prevention and treatment. It is projected that if we do not take strong preventive measures, by 2010, Asia AIDS patients and HIV carriers will reach 1 million. Xinhua News Agency / AFP

     AIDS medicine is called "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome," by the human immunodeficiency virus. Transmission of the virus for life and can damage the body's immune system so that people lose the ability to resist various diseases. HIV, including the main route of transmission of blood, sexual contact and maternal genetic and so on. At present, AIDS remains incurable. Cocktail, that is, anti-retroviral therapy, the treatment of AIDS is one of the effective ways.

     Since 1981, U.S. researchers found the first case of AIDS cases in the world, AIDS on a global scale and spread rapidly. In order to enhance people's awareness of AIDS, the World Health Organization in January 1988 will be the annual Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day, calling on other countries and international organizations in this day of activities organized to promote and popularize AIDS prevention knowledge. In June 2001, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS adopted the "AIDS", AIDS prevention and control of the international community for action to formulate a unified goals and action plans to achieve by the year 2015 to halt and begin reversing the spread of AIDS Trend The overall objective.

     Over the years, the international community to fight AIDS has made unremitting efforts and achieved positive progress. UNAIDS this year, on July 29 released the "2008 global AIDS epidemic report," pointed out that the global AIDS prevention and treatment in 2007 for the first time there have been "marked significant progress", new HIV infections and deaths have declined . The report shows that in 2007 new HIV-infected people at 250 million, down from 1998's 3,200,000 people; in 2007 about 200 million people died of AIDS, more than 200,000 young people in 2001. At present, there are 33,200,000 worldwide infected with HIV, of which 22,500,000 infected people in many sub-Saharan Africa.

     The World Health Organization stressed that the success of AIDS prevention and treatment needs of 3 key factors, that is, funds, medicines and trained health care workers. At present, many AIDS prevention and treatment project for lack of funds could not be carried out in some areas of high incidence of AIDS, lack of health care professionals, in particular to highlight the issue. In addition, in the fight against AIDS, people come to realize the "leadership" of the importance of leadership, innovation and vision, as well as the face of obstacles and challenges the spirit of perseverance, often plays an irreplaceable role.