11/25/2025
The public is invited to observe World AIDS Day on:
📆Monday, December 1st, 2025
⌚️5:30 pm
💒Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle National Shrine
(400 N. San Juan Blvd., San Juan, Texas.)
Please join us for prayers, a candlelight procession, portrait display, tributes from our community, music, poetry, and tabling from community service organizations.
The WAD program will begin following the 5:30 Mass. Scheduled to appear are representatives from Art That Heals, Casa Orgullo, CHICAS Happy Hour, Access Esperanza Clinics, GenTex, LULAC RGV Rainbow Council, Mount Calvary Christian Church, Pansy Pachanga, RGV Quakers, STEP (South Texas Equality Project), Temple Emanuel, Under The Umbrella RGV, United Church of Christ Rio Grande Valley, Valley AIDS Council, and Voces de Vida.
World AIDS Day is an annual observation of The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS), formerly in partnership with the Centers For Disease Control (CDC). UNAIDS’s 2025 theme for World AIDS Day is “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.” This theme addresses the critical challenges facing the global HIV response, such as funding cuts and their impact on prevention services, as well as the resilience of communities in adapting to these changes.
