Search Tag: World AIDS Day

Executive Health Management

2020 01 Dec

Since 1988, each year on 1 December World AIDS Day is observed raising awareness of the ongoing AIDS pandemic and mourning those who have died of the disease.   You might also like: Zoom On: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, International AIDS Society President   While for now the focus of the international community may be on the...Read more

Health Management

2014 02 Dec

As World AIDS Day is celebrated on 1 December 2014, we profile Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, president of the International AIDS Society since 2012. Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist, and a past winner of the International AIDS Society Prize. Her research has focused primarily on retroviruses. In 1983, she discovered the human immunodeficiency virus...Read more

Executive Health Management

2014 30 Nov

If you see someone wearing a red ribbon on the first day of December, it will be a reminder of World AIDS Day, an annual opportunity for the global community to come together to support the estimated 34 million individuals living with HIV, and to remember the millions who have died from the virus. The pandemic claimed more than 25 million lives between...Read more