WORLD AIDS VACCINE DAY 2023

Every year, a theme focusing on the ongoing developments and progress in HIV/AIDS vaccine research and development is used to commemorate World AIDS Vaccine Day. The World AIDS Vaccine Day theme for this year has not yet been made public or declared.

World AIDS Vaccine Day is observed on May 18. This yearly event is devoted to educating people about the urgent need for an HIV/AIDS vaccine and paying tribute to those who have been impacted by the condition. It serves as a reminder of both the strides made in the fight against HIV/AIDS and the continued work needed to develop a vaccine for prevention.

The first World AIDS Vaccine Day was observed on May 18, 1998, to honor a major speech made by the late U.S. President Bill Clinton. On this day, people all over the world consider how crucial it is to create an anti-HIV/AIDS vaccine.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the cause of the immune system disease known as AIDS. HIV weakens the immune system and impairs the body's capacity to fend against illness and infection. Contact with infected blood, semen, or vaginal secretions can transfer HIV. HIV/AIDS cannot be cured, however, drugs can slow the spread of the infection and stop the disease from getting worse.

Your immune system has been severely compromised when AIDS strikes. You'll be more susceptible to illnesses that a person with a strong immune system wouldn't typically get. Opportunistic infections or opportunistic tumors are what these are: Sweats, chills, recurring fever, chronic diarrhea, and other signs and symptoms of some of these diseases lymph nodes that are swollen, persistent white patches, or odd lesions on the tongue or in the mouth, persistent weakness, persistent, inexplicable weariness, and weight loss.

The human immunodeficiency virus is what causes HIV. Your immune system becomes compromised as a result of the virus's attack on its helper T-cells. Having insufficient immune cells to combat other infections leads to AIDS.