AIDS in World History

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Introduction

The epidemic of human immunodeficiency (HIV ) virus causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS ) has transformed international history involving the emergence of social norms and stereotypes against Black races , homosexuals , and countries plagued by the disease (e .g . Africa Thailand , etc . Historically , the first convincing evidence of HIV virus and actual disease process of AIDS was found in the blood of an unknown man from

Kinshasa , Africa in 1959 (Iliffe , 2007

.311 Eventually , the infection reached the Western Nations initially in Los Angeles around June 1981 wherein a rare pulmonary Pneumocystis carinii was found infecting six cases with blood-borne HIV condition (Feigal Levine and Biggar , 2000

.1 . By mid-1982 , approximately 450 cases of HIV had been identified by CDC , and by the end of the year , an estimated case increase of 300 or more was received by the same organization (Finkel , 2007

.89 . The event marked the first AIDS epidemic creating a global stigma against races , demographics , countries and gender associated with the disease epidemiology (Parker and Aggleton , 2003 From 1982 to 1985 , AIDS and HIV monitoring institutions were able to an approximate 16 ,000 cases of HIV , while death toll caused by the disease had reached 8 ,100 for 1985 alone (Finkel , 2007

.89 . By the end of 2002 , UNAIDS reported 42 million people with AIDS worldwide , while 25 million had already...