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World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, [1] is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.
December 1 - The first World AIDS Day takes place. December 16 - American disco singer Sylvester dies of AIDS in San Francisco on December 16, 1988. December 20 - Max Robinson, the first African-American broadcast network news anchor in the United States, dies on December 20 in Washington, D.C. due to complications from AIDS. [106] [107] [108]
[1] [2] It is the first major space that is dedicated to the epidemic in New York City. [1] The memorial was opened on World AIDS Day on December 1, 2016. The design was developed by the efforts of nearly 500 architects who came up with the idea of an 18-foot steel canopy as the gateway to the new St. Vincent's Hospital Park in Greenwich Village.
Day Without Art began on December 1, 1989 as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis, which had rapidly hurt the artistic community. Jane Alexander, the Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts in 1993, describes the day as a "powerful symbol of the devastating effect of AIDS on the arts community.
HIV.gov, formerly known as AIDS.gov, is an internet portal for all United States federal domestic HIV and AIDS resources and information. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched AIDS.gov.
[14] and President Bill Clinton mentioned Schmalz and the article in his December 1, 1993 address on World AIDS Day at Georgetown University Medical Center. [ 15 ] Schmalz was memorialized publicly at a memorial service held at the Dalton School in New York City on December 7, 1993, with eulogies by Soma Golden Behr, Peter Kaufman, Anna ...
December 1 – World AIDS Day; December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities; December 5 – Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development; December 6 – Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, which is observed as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada
ACT UP London's last protest was a march in Kennington on World AIDS Day (1 December 1993). This was on cuts to social security benefits for disability benefits. The group was revived by Dan Glass in 2014. The second incarnation came about to campaign for PreP to be made freely available on the NHS.