AIDS Awareness Week is a week, the last in November, when extra effort is made to raise AIDS awareness.
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The 2016 date is November 21 – December 1.
History and scope
In 1984 Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, declared the first AIDS Awareness Week. In the same year, in Toronto, ACT held an AIDS Awareness Week, following on form New York's Aid AIDS Week
Across Canada AIDS Awareness Week is the last week in November.
In 1991 the US President declared, in Proclamation 6305, that June 10–16 was to be Paediatric Aids Awareness Week.
[World] AIDS Awareness Week is held in Perth, Australia.
Nation Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week has been extant in Canada from at least 2014.
Latterly some organizations have used the name "HIV/AIDS Awareness Week".
Other observances
Aids Awareness Month has been declared in various countries. Also World Aids Day is an international UN sponsored observance.
The US government, in the form of aids.gov, presents an all-year-round diversity AIDS Awareness Calendar, for example for 2016: