In the 1980s, there was a terror going through the gay community. Little was known about it at the time, but thousands of men would soon die of the mysterious illness now known as HIV/AIDS. Acknowledged to have started in 1981, the world is honoring the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic …
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For nearly twelve years, scientists have been trying and failed to duplicate the procedure that led to the first ever successful HIV treatment of a patient in 2007. Their hard work seemed to have paid off when the news broke: a London patient was cured from the HIV infection. Although many experts refer to it …
According to the latest UNAIDS Global HIV and AIDS Statistics, about 940,000 people succumbed to HIV-related illnesses in 2017. In the same year, from the 36 million people who were living with HIV, 21.7 million of them were under anti-retroviral therapy. The HIV virus was first identified in the early 1980s. Amidst the continuous research, …