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AIDS Throughout the Years
How far we've come -
Wait, who died?
Nick Rock becomes the first known AIDS death in New York City -
ITS SPREADING!
Five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia appear in homosexual men in Los Angeles, two had died -
Good o'l Margaret
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announces at a press conference that an American scientist, Robert Gallo, has discovered the probable cause of AIDS -
Test that blood!
FDA approves the first AIDS antibody screening tests for use on all donated blood and plasma intended for transfusion and product manufacture -
Spreading like wildfire
One million people have been diagnosed with AIDS -
Hallelujah, we got a treatment
Zidovudine or ATZ, for short, is the first antiviral drug used to treat HIV -
They did what?
Four former health officials returned to court Monday for a retrial in France's most wrenching health scandal, in which AIDS-tainted blood infected 1,200 hemophiliacs and killed more than 250. -
Awareness people!
International Human Rights Day Treatment Action Campaign, campaigned or greater access to HIV treatment for all South Africans. It raised public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments. -
Beware the monkeys
The retrovirus SIVcpv from chimpanzees, may be passed to the human popultion in west equatorial Africa and caused various types of HIV -
A cure?
Timothy Ray Brown, a man living in Los Angeles, went to Berlin for treatment of his AIDS. After recieving a bone transplant he has tested negative for aids. -
Still cured?
Timothy Ray Brown is still negative even after four years of treatment
