World AIDS Day has a special place in the history of the AIDS pandemic. Since 1988 1st December has been a day bringing messages of compassion, hope, solidarity and understanding about AIDS to every country in the world, North and South, East and West.

What prompted this extraordinary response? World AIDS Day emerged from the call by the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention in January 1988 to open channels of communication, strengthen the exchange of information and experience, and forge a spirit of social tolerance. Since then, World AIDS Day has received the support of the World Health Assembly, the United Nations system, and governments, communities and individuals around the world. Each year, it is the only international day of coordinated action against AIDS.

Message for World AIDS Day 2000

• Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the UN

• Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS 

Each year there is a particular theme chosen for World AIDS Day, and over the last eleven years the themes have been as follows:

1988	Communication
1989	Youth
1990	Women & AIDS
1991	Sharing the Challenge
1992	Community Commitment
1993	Time to Act
1994	AIDS and the Family
1995	Shared Rights, Shared Responsibilities
1996	One World, One Hope
1997	Children Living in a World with AIDS
1998	Force For Change: World AIDS Campaign With Young People
1999	Listen, Learn, Live: World AIDS Campaign with Children and Young People
2000	" AIDS : Men make a difference"

• Epidemiological Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections
  Bangladesh.
  Last Update: 2000, Source: USAIDS, Size: 335KB
• BIDS Research on Health & disease (last 5 years)

AIDS Day Programme

• A rally which will start from National Museum Dhaka and end in Press Club.
  Time: 7.30- 8.00 a.m.
  Date: 1-12-2000
• Official inaugural of World AIDS Day activities at the Engineers Institute Auditorium Dhaka.
  Time: 10.40 a.m.
  Date: 1-12-2000
• A day long exhibition at the lobby of the Engineers Institute by NGOs working in HIV/AIDS sector.

• National AIDS & STD Control Programme Bangladesh
  www.bangla-aids.org
• Organization for Social Development of Unemployed Youth

• Basic information about the diseases
• Surveillance and epidemiological resources
• AIDS Vaccines
• Prevention and treatment
• United Nations and other organizations
• National AIDS Centres and Ministries of Health
• AIDS Conferences
• AIDS publications and information centres
• AIDS mailing lists
• AIDS search tools

• InfoDev - Facilitating communications in response to HIV/AIDS in South - East Asia
• AIDS Premature Death, An art of living +
  Organization for Social Development of Unemployed Youth (OSDUY)
• HIV & ASIA
• HIV/AIDS : A Human & Development Challenge in South Asia
• HIV Documents
• WHO Reports on AIDS
• World Bank Reports on HIV
• Statistics on AIDS/HIV

• Other AIDS/HIV Reports

• Talking to Children About HIV and AIDS
• Women & AIDS