March, The CDC stated that, "persons who may be considered at increased risk of AIDS include those with symptoms and signs suggestive of AIDS sexual partners of AIDS patients sexually active homosexual or bisexual men with multiple partners Haitian entrants to the United States present or past abusers of IV drugs patients with haemophilia and sexual partners of individuals at increased risk for AIDS." 1983 January, Reports of AIDS among women with no other risk factors suggested the disease might be passed on through heterosexual sex. Also in December, the CDC reported the first cases of possible mother to child transmission of AIDS. This case provided clearer evidence that AIDS was caused by an infectious agent, and it also caused additional concerns about the safety of the blood supply. December, A 20-month old child who had received multiple transfusions of blood and blood products died from infections related to AIDS. September, The USA’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) formally establishes the term “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” (Aids). Later on in the same month, Aids is reported among hemophiliacs and Haitians in the USA. June, A report of a group of cases amongst gay men in Southern California suggested that the disease might be caused by an infectious agent that was sexually transmitted. A South African man contracted the virus while in California, USA. The first official case of AIDS in South Africa is reported. Community organisations in the UK and USA begin promoting safer sex among gay men. This illness soon became known locally as 'slim'. In Uganda, doctors were seeing the first cases of a new, fatal wasting disease. 1982 Aids is reported in several European countries. At the same time the first case of AIDS was documented in the UK.
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December, It becomes clear that the disease affects other population groups, when the first cases of PCP are reported in injecting drug users. At this stage doctors believed that the disease only affected gay men.
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1981 This year is usually referred to as the beginning of the HIV/Aids epidemic in the USA as the first cases of rare pneumonia (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia or PCP) in young gay men are reported in California and New York(later found to be HIV/Aids). 1970s African doctors see a rise in opportunistic infections and wasting, but Western scientists and doctors remain ignorant of the growing epidemic. 25 years later in the 1980s, researchers studying the spreading Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, take a second look at the blood and discover that it contains HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS. 1959 In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, a seemingly healthy man walks into a hospital clinic to give blood for a Western-backed study of blood diseases. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from animals to humans was made even earlier in the 1930s, others claim it was later than the 1940s. 1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003.