01.12.2023
What is HIV?
Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
HIV damages cells within your body which then weakens your immune system and the ability to fight infections.
What is AIDS?
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
AIDS is a number of life threatening infections and illness that occur as a result of your body been severely damaged by HIV.
Although AIDS cannot be transmitted from 1 person to another, HIV can
World AIDS Day
This day has been held on 1st December since 1988 to raise awareness and remove the stigma behind HIV/AIDS
Each year holds a different theme, 2023 – “Let Communities Lead”.
2023 approach is allowing people within the AIDS community to have a voice, to speak out and help people become less ignorant to HIV and AIDS and to stop people defining individuals living with HIV by their diagnosis
Although there is no cure for this, there are treatments that allow us to live normal healthy and long lives. If you are concerned about HIV/AIDS you can be tested in numerous ways.
Please use the link below to find your closest outpatient centre.
Search Results – NHS (www.nhs.uk) – testing centres near you
