* Confusion or incompetence on the part of African doctors: " Many common Third World diseases are confused with AIDS even if they are not part of its official definition.

A definition of AIDS agreed upon in 1985 by the World Health Organization in Bangui did not require a positive HIV test, but since 1985, many African countries have added positive HIV tests to the Bangui criteria for AIDS or changed their definitions to match those of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control.

* World AIDS Day ( International )

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Diana wanted William and Harry to have a broader range of experiences than previous royal children and took both to venues that ranged from Disney World and McDonald's to AIDS clinics and shelters for the homeless.

* World AIDS Vaccine Day ( International )

In film, Team America: World Police includes a character who plays a lead role in Lease, a Broadway musical parody of Rent ; the finale song is " Everyone has AIDS !";.

" The UCSF Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the United States by U. S. News & World Report, who also ranked UCSF ’ s medical school specialty program in AIDS medical care first in the country.

In 2000, the World Bank announced a “ war on AIDS ”, and in 2011, the Bank joined the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership.

Most governments in the region have established AIDS education programs in partnership with the World Health Organization and international NGOs.

In October 1985, a conference of public health officials including representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organisation met in Bangui and defined AIDS in Africa as, " prolonged fevers for a month or more, weight loss of over 10 % and prolonged diarrhoea ".

In 2003, decided to move the Pride March from June to the December Human Rights Week to coincide with related human rights activities such as World AIDS Day ( December 1 ), Philippine National Lesbian Day ( December 8 ), and International Human Rights Day ( December 10 ).

In 1997, at the 14th World Council of YMCAs, the World Council in Germany adopted " Challenge 21 ", giving even more focus to the global challenges, like gender equality, sustainable development, war and peace, fair distribution and the challenges of globalisation, racism, and HIV / AIDS:

As one of the first openly gay men with AIDS to be portrayed in popular media, Zamora brought international attention to HIV / AIDS and LGBT issues and prejudices through his appearance on MTV's reality television series, The Real World: San Francisco.

Zamora's personal struggle with AIDS, and his conflict with housemate David " Puck " Rainey is credited with helping to make The Real World a hit show, for which Time ranked it # 7 on their list of 32 Epic Moments in Reality-TV History.

After his death, Zamora was publicly praised by President Bill Clinton and Donna Shalala for his leadership and work in educating high school students, saying that through his appearances on The Real World, Pedro had become a part of viewers ’ families, and that all people who watched the show could now say that they “ knew ” someone who had lived with AIDS.

* The Washington Post ; " MTV's All-Too-True-Grit ' Real World ' Has a New Roommate: AIDS "; June 23, 1994

* World AIDS Vaccine Day

World AIDS Day, observed on 1 December every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection.

Since 1995, the President of the United States has made an official proclamation on World AIDS Day.

With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

* World Health Day – April 7

* World Intellectual Property Day ( International )

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* World Humanitarian Day ( International )

** World Day for Safety and Health at Work ( International )

* World Autism Awareness Day

* World Konkani Day ( Goa )

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

* World Hemophilia Day ( International )

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

* World Tapir Day, raises awareness of threatened tapir species

Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred here on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins ' fire was extinguished in the fourth century.

* 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

* World Day for Laboratory Animals ( UN recognized )

* World Health Day ( International )

:* Liège celebrates the Bastille Day each year since the end of the First World War, as Liège was decorated by the Légion d ' Honneur for its unexpected resistance during the Battle of Liège.

He announced before the 2007 Cricket World Cup that this would be his last appearance in One Day Internationals.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International ( ODI ) cricket.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

The One Day International playing nations automatically enter the final qualification tournament, the World Cup Qualifier, along with other nations who have qualified through separate competitions.