World AIDS Day 2025

Overview: The 2025 theme, “Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response,” highlights inclusive healthcare, political commitment, and community participation.

Riyaz

Dec-02-2025

World AIDS Day is celebrated on 1 December annually to create awareness of HIV/AIDS among people all over the world, pay tribute to those who have already lost their lives and assist those who are already infected. It was started in 1988, and it is one of the most significant international public health campaigns. The 2025 theme, 'Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response,' emphasises the need for more effective political action, inclusive healthcare, and community-led efforts. The day promotes education, prevention, available treatment, and combating stigma, as well as the global efforts to capitalize on ending AIDS as a threat to human health by 2030.

Key Highlights of World AIDS

The first reported case of HIV infection dates back to the year 1959 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
When strange illnesses began to emerge among young men in the United States in 1981, AIDS was the first known case.
In 1983, scientists discovered AIDS as a virus that was later to be called HIV.
Studies indicate that HIV started as SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus), which is spread by chimpanzees to humans.
At the end of the 1980s, AIDS became a world health crisis.
In the year 1988, World AIDS Day was set up in order to create awareness and enhance response in the whole world.

PYQs Asked in Government Exams

Exam Name / Year	Question	Options	Answer
SSC CGL 2020	AIDS is caused by which type of virus?	A) DNA Virus B) RNA Virus C) Retrovirus D) Bacteria	C (Retrovirus)
RRB NTPC 2016	HIV affects which cells of the human body?	A) RBC B) Platelets C) WBC/CD4 Cells D) Nerve Cells	C (WBC/CD4 Cells)
SSC CHSL 2019	In which year was the first case of AIDS reported?	A) 1972 B) 1981 C) 1990 D) 1965	B (1981)
SSC GD 2021	World AIDS Day is observed on which date?	A) 1 May B) 1 December C) 12 January D) 15 October	B (1 December)
Bank PO 2018	What is the full form of AIDS?	A) Acute Immune Deficiency System B) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome C) Active Immuno Dysfunction Syndrome D) None	B
SSC CPO 2022	HIV is transmitted through which of the following?	A) Air B) Mosquito Bite C) Unprotected Sexual Contact D) Touching	C
UPSC Prelims 2014	HIV primarily destroys which type of cells?	A) Helper T-cells B) Beta Cells C) Liver Cells D) Platelets	A (Helper T-cells)
RRB Group D 2018	AIDS affects which system of the body?	A) Digestive B) Immune System C) Excretory D) Circulatory	B
SSC MTS 2020	Which day is observed as World AIDS Vaccine Day?	A) 18 May B) 1 June C) 25 April D) 16 August	A
State PSC 2019	HIV can be detected by which test?	A) MRI B) ELISA Test C) CT Scan D) Ultrasound	B (ELISA)

Conclusion

World AIDS Day 2025 strengthens the world implementation of HIV/AIDS by creating awareness, preventing and providing affordable healthcare. It emphasises the need to impose solidarity, responses based on scientific approaches, and to eliminate the stigma. The day is a reminder that it is time to help HIV-positive persons and reinforce joint actions to develop an AIDS-free world in 2030.