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поиск по ресурсному центру On May 18, Kazakhstan will host a nationwide action dedicated to the World Remembrance Day of AIDS Victims. The action starts at 11.00 in the Republican AIDS Center, Almaty, after which it will spread to all regions of the country in order to attract the attention of the maximum number of Kazakhstanis to the problem of the epidemic.
The purpose of the action “We remember! We know! We will win! ” is to honor the memory of people who died of AIDS, express their solidarity with those affected by the HIV epidemic. Participants also want to draw the attention of the general public to the problems of PLWH.
The action was organized by the Republican Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, the Almaty Public Health Department, the Kazakhstan Union of People Living with HIV, UNAIDS, Almaty AIDS Center, the Kazakh National S.D. Asfendiyarov Medical University.
As part of the action, rapid HIV testing, quilt placement, and communication with PLWH will take place.
Annually, the World Remembrance Day of AIDS Victims is celebrated on the third Sunday of May. For the first time this day (WorldRemembranceDayofAIDSVictims) was noted in the American San Francisco in 1983. A few years later there appeared symbols of movement against this disease. They were a red ribbon, attached to clothing, as well as colorful canvases – quilts sewn from scraps of cloth in memory of the many people who died. And now, on the World Remembrance Day of AIDS Victims, activists of this cause and other concerned people attach red ribbons to their clothes.
