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/arti...

CDC Opportunistic Infections:
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/living...

CDC Incidence rates by population sub-groups:
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statis...
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fac...

AIDS/HIV origins and history:
https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv...
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overvi...
https://jech.bmj.com/content/67/6/473
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
https://hivhistory.org/panels/panel-01/
https://www.the-scientist.com/daily-n...

The Story of Gaetan Dugas:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n...
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/p...%
20AIDS%20mortality%20levels.
https://aids2020.unaids.org/chapter/r...