World AIDS Vaccine Day
World AIDS Vaccine Day is held on May 18. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. 
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The day gives us an opportunity to say a big 'thank you' to the scientists, healthworkers, community members and social workers who are tirelessly trying to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS. Increasingly more people with HIV are leading a normal living because they have access to the life-saving anti-retroviral therapy or ART. By June 2020, 26 million people were accessing antiretroviral therapy, marking a 2.4% increase from an estimate of 25.4 million at the end of 2019 (WHO).
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
World AIDS Orphans Day on May 7 (an event organized by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Association since 2002 to raise public and government awareness of the plight of orphans);
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on May 19 (United States);
Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on June 8
National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day on September 18 (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that people aged 55 and older accounted for 26% of the estimated 1.2 million people living with diagnosed or undiagnosed HIV infection in the United States in 2013);
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day on October 15 (United States);
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7 (United States);
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10 (United States)