How was HIV/AIDS discovered and when was the first patient was prognosticated?

HIV/AIDS is the disease which is affecting the world so much; especially the African countries. More people are dying each and everyday; a lot of orphans suffering without assistance. We need to join together and fight this disease.

about 25 years ago. Strange that you ask this question since there was a special covering it on FRONTLINE. You can watch it online here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...

It was called Frontline: The Age of AIDS

First known case of human HIV infection
A blood sample is taken in 1959 from a man living in Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). For decades, the sample is stored away in a freezer. In 1998, after sophisticated testing is developed for HIV, the blood sample from 1959 is tested and confirmed as positive for HIV.

taken from same website - there is actually a time line at this link here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...

try medical enyclopedia

AIDS was first reported in the United States in 1981.

And some theories of where it came from:
http://www.avert.org/origins.htm

It was discovered when many young homosexuals in NY in 1980'ies started to have Kaposi sarcoma and also infections which occur only with a very weak immune system. Doctors started to think about the cause of of such immunodefficiency.

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