World AIDS Day --- Commemorative Stamp

 
Date of issue: 1st Dec. 2003
 

 

Technical Details:

Serial number:2003-24
Values in set: 1
Denomination: 80 fen
Date of issue: 1st December 2003
Designer: Chen Shaohua
Size of stamps: 30 * 40 mm
Perforation: 11.5 * 11
Sheet composition: 20 for Sheet I; 8 for Sheet II
Printing process: gravure
Printer: Beijing Postage Stamp Printing House

(1-1)J World AIDS Day 80f

 

Background Informations:

AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is an infectious disease caused by virus, resulting in loss of immune response to various diseases and eventually in death of the patient. Ever since the first case was diagnosed in 1981, AIDS has spread across the whole world, seriously threatening the health and lives of the people. To facilitate control and final elimination of AIDS, the World Health Organization designated 1st December each year the "World AIDS DAY".

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