HIV/AIDS: Plague of the 21st Century

In the 1980s, HIV began spreading throughout North America and the world at large. From "gay cancer" to the myth of Patient Zero, these are some of the stories that emerged from those first few years.

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Source/Further reading:

The Basics of HIV and AIDS:
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234451/

CDC Opportunistic Infections:
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/livingwithhiv/opportunisticinfections.html

CDC Incidence rates by population sub-groups:
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219

AIDS/HIV origins and history:
https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/history
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline
https://jech.bmj.com/content/67/6/473
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19827
https://hivhistory.org/panels/panel-01/
https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-news/hiv-spread-from-haiti-to-nyc-in-1970-patient-zero-not-to-blame-32644

The Story of Gaetan Dugas:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n18/tom-crewe/here-was-a-plague
https://www.scribd.com/book/414171918
https://www.scribd.com/book/240406939
https://www.scribd.com/book/362833379

HIV/AIDS Today in Africa:
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2020/july/20200706_global-aids-report#:~:text=The%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic%20has,to%202008%
20AIDS%20mortality%20levels.
https://aids2020.unaids.org/chapter/region-profiles/

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