National Latino AIDS Awareness Day Timeline

October 15, 2003

First National Latino AIDS Awareness Day

The U.S. launched its first National Latino AIDS Awareness Day. By this point, there were more cases in African-American and Latino people than white people.

1988

​Concern grows about exposure in minorities

​The Centers for Disease Control launched a TV campaign about the impact of AIDS on minorities.

​December 1, 1988

​World Health Organization declared the first World AIDS Day

​The world's first AIDS Day was recognized as part of an attempt to bring awareness to the disease. WHO says that AIDS cases have increased 56 percent worldwide.

June 5, 1981

​​HIV was on the CDC's radar

The Centers for Disease Control issued the first warning about a rare form of pneumonia, later determined to be AIDS-related. Health officials believe it had been spreading for years before this warning.