History of the AIDS Crisis: A Timeline: Media
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Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 virions (green) budding from a cultured lymphocyte....
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The causative virus of AIDS, known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), was discovered...
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The June 5, 1981, edition of MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report),...
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French scientists Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. While working at the...
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Ryan White (center), who contracted AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion, and...
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in Washington, D.C.
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The Edge (David Evans), guitarist of the band U2, performing on World AIDS Day, 2014.
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A microbiologist using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test to develop...
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A rendering of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS.
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A woman in Tanzania, eastern Africa, bringing her child to an HIV screening clinic...
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Various antiretroviral drugs. HIV infection can be effectively managed through the...
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Truvada, a medication introduced in 2012 as a means of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)....
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Interactives
Advances in treatment and prevention in the late 1990s and early 2000s have led to...
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