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History of HIV/AIDS

  • Beginning of HIV/AIDS

    Beginning of HIV/AIDS
    HIV transfers to humans in Africa
    HIV enters Haiti
  • Period: to

    HIV/Aids

  • Spreading around

    Spreading around
    HIV enters the USA
    African doctors see a rise in infection
  • Dected eksewhere

    Dected eksewhere
    AIDS is found in California; mostly in gay men and injecting drug users
    People thought only gay men could get it and it was called GRID - Gay-Related-Immunodeficiency
  • More Spreading

    More Spreading
    AIDS is found in a lot of haemophiliacs
    Eurpopean countries now have AIDS
    The name AIDS is created
    Organizations promote safer sex among gay men
  • New Reports on AIDS

    New Reports on AIDS
    AIDS is found in non drug using women and children
    Experts start to realize the cause of AIDS is infectious
    3000 AIDS cases have been reported; 1000 have died
  • More information

    More information
    Scientists identified that HIV causes AIDS
    Sceintists are aware that AIDS is a wide spread in Africa
  • Discovering more

    Discovering more
    HIV test is licensed for screening blood supplies
    AIDS has been found in China and is now all over the world
  • widespread

    widespread
    more than 38,000 cases of aids has been reported
    Uganda starts prmoting safe sex
  • Campiagn

    Campiagn
    USA government makes a national education campaign on adis
    Disccuss worl aids day
  • Helping out aids

    Helping out aids
    AZT is found to help treat AIDS
    Countires start raising awareness
  • No benefits

    No benefits
    AZT is found to show no benefit to the early stages of HIV
  • Birthing

    Birthing
    AZT is shown to reduce mother to child transmission of HIV
  • Medication

    Medication
    Combination treatment is shown to be effective
    People in developed countires start taking new treatment
  • Declining

    Declining
    AIDS starts to decline in developing countries
    Brazil starts free treatment
  • Funding

    Funding
    Global Fund is made to boost the response to AIDS
  • Treament

    Treament
    Drugs become more affordable
    "3 by 5" campaign is launched to make more access to AIDS treatment
  • Awareness

    Awareness
    America starts PREFAR to combat AIDS worlwide
    South Africa starts to provide free treatment
  • reducing the risk

    reducing the risk
    Circumsion is shown to help reduce the risk of AIDS on heterosexual men
    28% of people in developing countries that need treatment are recieving it
  • spreading around to people

    spreading around to people
    Approximately 33 milliion people are living with HIV
  • More preventions

    More preventions
    President Obama announced that the removal of the travel ban helps prevent AIDS