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| Between 1970 and 1980 |
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| Between these years no documentations were made or
cases recorded on AIDS. As such no much contributions where made to the
origin of AIDS during these years. |
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| 1981 history |
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- By march 1981 about eight (8) cases of Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) had
occurred amongst young gay men in New York. Kaposi's Sarcoma is
also a form of benign cancer which affects old people.
- By April rare lung infection Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)
was recorded in both California and New York, However pentamine
was available for the treatment of PCP and the request for it increased
greatly during this period
- By June 1981, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) spread to Los
Angeles and five people died from it. At this period the American public
began to be aware of AIDS
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| 1982 history |
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- In June a report of a group of cases amongst gay men in Southern
California, suggested that the disease might be caused by an infectious
agent that was sexually transmitted.
- By the beginning of July a total of 452 cases of a strange pneumonia
(PCP), from 23 states, had
been reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and some cases
were also noticed among the Haitians.
- By August the disease was
called referred to as and named AIDS, The name AIDS was gotten from the
acronym Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It was called AIDS because
it was acquired and not inherited also it included immune because it
attacks the immune system and a syndrome because it manifested in
several ways.
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| 1983 history |
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- At the beginning of the year the disease had spread wider and it was
then suggested that the disease might have been heterosexually
transferred from men to women.
- In the United Kingdom the public were awakened about blood
transfusions, journals published articles with titles such as "killer
blood." The media more generally started to take notice of AIDS, with
the staging of a TV Horizon programme, "the killer in the village".
- In May 1983, doctors at the Institute Pasteur in
France reported that they had isolated a new virus, which they believed
was the cause of AIDS. Little notice was taken of this announcement at
the time, but a sample of the virus was sent to the CDC. A few months
later the virus was named lymphadenopathy-associated virus or LAV,
patents were applied for, and a sample of LAV was sent to the National
Cancer Institute.
- The issue of transmission of AIDS became a major concern in America
as police department assigned special mask and gloves for use in
situations of suspected AIDS cases.
- in Europe two rather separate AIDS epidemics were occurring, one
linked to Africa, the other linked to gay men who had visited the USA.
In France and in Belgium AIDS was occurring mainly in people from
Central Africa or those with links to the area, whilst in the UK, West
Germany and Denmark the majority of people with AIDS were homosexual.
- In October the first European World Health Organisation (WHO)
meeting was held in Denmark. At this meeting it was reported that there
had been 2,803 AIDS cases in the USA.
- By this time other countries began to take preventive measure
against the disease.
- 26 patients with AIDS being identified in Kigali, Rwanda, and 38
patients identified in Kinshasa, Zaire where there was said to be a
"strong indication of heterosexual transmission." Shortly afterwards,
the Zairian Department of Health created a national AIDS research
programme.
- By the end of the year 3,064 cases were recorded in the USA
and of these 1292 had died.
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| 1984 history |
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- At this time there were couple of investigations as to know the
cause of AIDS, and they found out that a man was linked to a number of
transmissions and he was called patient 0
for "Out of California".
- On April 23th, the United States Health and Human
Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced that Dr. Robert Gallo of
the National Cancer Institute had isolated the virus which caused AIDS,
that it was named HTLV-III, and that there would soon be a commercially
available test for the virus.
- Small scale needle and syringe
exchange scheme were introduced in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- By the end of 1984, there had been 7699 AIDS cases and 3665 AIDS
deaths in the USA, and 762 cases had been reported in Europe. In the UK
there had been 108 cases and 46 deaths.
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| 1985 history |
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- By January 1985 reports clearly showed that the
LAV and HTLV-III were the same viruses.
- The first international conference on AIDS was held in Atlanta, USA
and about 2000 people attended the conference.
- In September, AIDS was officially announced in the USA by the then
president Reagan.
- By December, Aids cases where reported from and china, and mother to
child transmissions was now discovered.
- By the end of 1985, 20,303 cases of AIDS had been reported to the
World Health Organisation. In the USA 15,948 cases of AIDS had been
reported, and in the UK 275 cases.
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| 1986 history |
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- In February, Needle and syringe exchange scheme started in the UK
(more precisely in Dundee).
- In may, the name HIV (human immune virus) was generally adopted as
the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses ruled that
former names should be dropped.
- In September, progress was recorded in the fight against AIDS, as a
new drug the Azidothymidine (AZT)
was found to inhibit the growth of HIV.
- By the end of the year, 85 countries had reported 38,401 cases of
AIDS to the World Health Organization. By region these were, Africa
2323, Americas 31741, Asia 84, Europe 3858, Oceania 395.
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