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The World Health Organization begins a global program on HIV/AIDS.

1986

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Two years later, the program will add the goal of preventing discrimination against survivors living with HIV/AIDS.

In working to stop the spread of AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges the social context of discrimination and violence as being one of the contributing factors to the spread of AIDS.