For World AIDS Day 2021, Sapienza University promotes awareness and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. From November 29 to December 3, from 2 pm to 6 pm, free screening tests for HIV and STDs will be carried out at the Malattie tropicali building (Policlinico Umberto I General Hospital).

World AIDS Day,  designated on December 1 every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.