A graphic posted on the official website to promote the World AIDS Day 2016 campaign. World AIDS Day takes place on December 1 each year and is set for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV, and to commemorate people who have died. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, held for the first time in 1988. [Photo from aids2016.org]

Taiyuan World AIDS Day Conference 2016 is initiated by the Shanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, and co-sponsored by Taiyuan Disease Control & Prevention Center, Taiyuan Health Education Center, Shanxi University’s College of Life Science, and Taiyuan Communist Youth League New Media Center. [Photo from sxu.edu.cn]

Wang Aiqin, deputy mayor of Taiyuan, reports on the city’s anti-AIDS efforts and accomplishments. She called on the whole of society to make an unremitting effort to reduce the HIV infection rate to zero. [Photo from sxu.edu.cn]

Ding Yaowu, Shanxi University’s deputy Party secretary, welcomes attendees and thanks the departments contributing to the school’s programs against AIDS. He showed his great respect for all Red Ribbon volunteers for their devotion to AIDS prevention and care for infected patients. Ding emphasized the vital and vigorous roles modern college students demonstrate in social progress. Shanxi University, he said, promised to take the lead in the fight against AIDS and encourage more young people to do their active part to pursue a world free of AIDS. Shanxi University is a provincial college-based platform for AIDS publicity. In the past ten years, the school has won a string of honors from organizations including the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA). The school has contributed nearly 5,000 volunteers and numerous activities to the cause. [Photo from sxu.edu.cn]

Participants from several disciplines attend the event. [Photo from sxu.edu.cn]