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AIDS Retrospective Slideshow: A Pictorial Timeline of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Medically Reviewed by Zilpah Sheikh, MD on March 12, 2024
AIDS Timeline
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Circa 1900: From Monkeys to Humans
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1981: First Cases Recognized
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1982: AIDS Gets Its Name
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1983: The Public Gets Worried
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1983: Scientists Discover HIV
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1985: Hudson Dies, Hysteria Builds
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1985: Testing Begins
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1986: Ryan White Goes Back to School
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1987: Princess Diana Reaches Out
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1987: ACT UP Forms, Makes Impact
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1987: Liberace Dies
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1988: World AIDS Day
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1991: AIDS Hits Home
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1993: The Message Gets Out
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1994: The Real World
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1996: A Breakthrough?
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1998-2000: So Many Pills
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2001-2002: The Global Problem Grows
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2003: President Bush Gets Involved
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2006-2007: Treatment Works?
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2008: A Reality Check
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2012: PrEP Arrives
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2013: Cured?
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2016-2017: New Guidelines; the Gates Sponsor PrEP
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2019: History-Making Transplant
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