11. What is the theme for World AIDS Day 2024?
[A] Know Your Status
[B] Global solidarity, resilient services
[C] Take the rights path: My health, my right
[D] Let communities lead
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Correct Answer: C [Take the rights path: My health, my right]
Notes:
World AIDS Day is observed annually on December 1 since 1988 to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and show solidarity against the pandemic. It reflects on progress in prevention, treatment, and care while highlighting ongoing challenges. The day commemorates lives lost to AIDS, celebrates healthcare milestones, and spreads awareness globally. It emphasizes the link between combating AIDS and achieving Universal Health Coverage and the Right to Health. The 2024 theme, “Take the rights path: My health, my right!” focuses on healthcare access, individual empowerment, and addressing inequalities in HIV prevention and treatment.
12. What is the title of the UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report 2024?
[A] Towards an HIV-Free Future
[B] Take the Right Path to End AIDS
[C] Ending AIDS by 2030
[D] Global Fight Against AIDS
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Correct Answer: B [Take the Right Path to End AIDS]
Notes:
The UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report 2024, titled “Take the right path to end AIDS”, was launched. Of 39.9 million people living with HIV, 9.3 million lack access to life-saving treatment. In the past year, 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses, and 1.3 million contracted HIV. UNAIDS is a joint program of 11 UN organizations, including UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, and World Bank. Its vision is to achieve zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths.
13. What is the theme of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2024?
[A] Together for Love: Stop HIV Stigma
[B] To acknowledge how HIV disproportionately affects Black people
[C] Engage, Educate, Empower: Uniting to End HIV/AIDS in Black Communities
[D] Let communities lead
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Correct Answer: C [Engage, Educate, Empower: Uniting to End HIV/AIDS in Black Communities]
Notes:
The theme for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in 2024 is “Engage, Educate, Empower: Uniting to End HIV/AIDS in Black Communities”. National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is an opportunity to increase HIV education, increase testing, increase community involvement, increase treatment, promote HIV testing, prevention, and treatment and stop HIV stigma.
14. What was the theme of World AIDS Day 2023?
[A] Bridges of Understanding
[B] Harmony in Healing
[C] Let Communities Lead
[D] Community for Healing
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Correct Answer: C [Let Communities Lead]
Notes:
World AIDS Day is observed on December 1st every year. The theme for 2023 is “Let Communities Lead”. This theme highlights the importance of communities in the HIV response and the goal of ending AIDS by 2030. World AIDS Day is an international day that raises awareness of the AIDS pandemic and mourns those who have died from the disease. It also celebrates victories, such as increased access to treatment and prevention services.
15. What is the target year of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, set by the United Nations?
[A] 2025
[B] 2027
[C] 2030
[D] 2035
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Correct Answer: C [2030]
Notes:
The UNAIDS agency said in its annual World AIDS Day Report that community-led responses are unrecognised, under-resourced and in some places under attack.
The UN first set out in 2015 the target of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. There are 39 million people around the world living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Of them, 20.8 million are in eastern and southern Africa and 6.5 million are in Asia and the Pacific.
16. Which country hosted the ‘International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science’?
[A] USA
[B] Australia
[C] Israel
[D] Indonesia
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Correct Answer: B [Australia]
Notes:
The World Health Organization (WHO) presented updated scientific and normative advice concerning human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) during the 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science, held in Australia.
The UN health agency additionally urged nations to incorporate mpox detection, prevention, and care into current and novel HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention and control initiatives.
17. Which of the following important days is/are celebrated in December?
- World AIDS Day
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- International Day of People with Disabilities
- World Soil Day
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:
[A] Only 1
[B] Only 1 & 2
[C] Only 1, 3 & 4
[D] 1, 2, 3 & 4
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Correct Answer: D [1, 2, 3 & 4]
Notes:- World AIDS Day is observed on 1 December every year to raise awareness and knowledge about HIV and a call to move toward ending the HIV epidemic. It was first celebrated in 1988. The theme of 2022 is “Rock The Ribbon”.
- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is observed on 2 December to make people aware of the modern slavery that works against human rights.
- World Day of the Handicapped is also known as the International Day of People with Disabilities (IDPD) is observed on 3 December to raise awareness about understanding and accepting people with disabilities. The theme for 2021 was “Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world.”
- December 5 is observed as the World Soil Day (WSD), to highlight the value of healthy soil and to promote the sustainable management of soil resources.
- The theme for World Soil Day 2022 is “Soils, where food begins”.
18. The causative virus of AIDS was isolated in the year of:
[A] 1980
[B] 1981
[C] 1983
[D] 1986
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Correct Answer: C [1983]
Notes:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first reported in 1981 in San Francisco and New York. However, it was in 1983-84 that the causative virus was isolated from patients of AIDS and was named HIV in 1986.
19. Which of the following pairs of various historical events and their respective locations (current countries) where they happened, is are correct?
- Dawn Raids – France
- Darfur Genocide – Nigeria
- Herero and Nama Genocide – Namibia
- Tulsa Race Massacre – United States
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
[A] Only 1 & 2
[B] Only 2, 3 & 4
[C] Only 3 & 4
[D] Only 2 & 3
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Correct Answer: C [Only 3 & 4 ]
Notes:
Dawn Raids were special police operations in New Zealand during the 1970s and 1980s targeting illegal overstayers from the Pacific Islands. The Darfur genocide involves the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people amid the conflict in Western Sudan, recognized as the first genocide of the 21st century. The Herero and Nama Genocide occurred from 1904 to 1908, perpetrated by the German Empire against the Herero, Nama, and San peoples. The Tulsa Race Massacre, also known as the Black Wall Street Massacre, took place in 1921 when White mobs attacked Black residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
20. Consider the following incidents which were in news recently:
- The Dawn Raids – a series of crackdown in the 1970s in Australia on over-stayers.
- Stolen Generation – the children of indigenous people of America who were removed from their families by the government and church.
- Uyghur Genocide – the human rights abuse carried out by the Chinese government against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.
- Mai Kadra Massacre – mass murders and ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Which of the above is/are correct?
[A] Only 1 & 3
[B] Only 2 & 3
[C] Only 3 & 4
[D] Only 1, 3 & 4
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Correct Answer: C [Only 3 & 4]
Notes:
The Dawn Raids were a 1970s crackdown in New Zealand targeting Pacific Islanders for overstaying visas. The Stolen Generation refers to Aboriginal children in Australia removed from their families by the government and church between 1910 and 1970. The Uyghur Genocide involves human rights abuses by the Chinese government against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, ongoing since 2014. The Mai Kadra Massacre involved mass murders and ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in November 2020.
