Every year on Dec. 1, people who have been affected by HIV connect globally on World AIDS Day. It serves as a time to encourage more understanding of the topic to stop misinformation and to seek better HIV care.
By having sex, either anal, oral, or vaginal, without the use of a condom.
By sharing needles, syringes, and other instruments that break the skin, such as tattoo and/or ear/body piercing needles.By encountering HIV-positive blood either through an open wound or through a blood transfusion. Risks from transfusions are now very low because of blood screening, which started in 1985.
“This World AIDS Day, we acknowledge the role equity plays in either the success or failure of our Nation’s HIV response. Providing equitable access to HIV testing, prevention, care, treatment, and research is key to ending the HIV epidemic,” said Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy Harold Phillips. “The COVID-19 pandemic has tested our resolve and our ability to focus on ending the HIV epidemic.
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