Women: A Fundamental Group in HIV Prevention and Treatment Strategies
Women: A Fundamental Group in HIV Prevention and Treatment Strategies It was in 1981 that what we now know as HIV was first officially reported. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report in their journal, the *Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report*, which described the cases of five young gay men in Los Angeles, California, suffering from an unusual form of pneumonia. This report marked the beginning of the recognition of the disease that was erroneously linked exclusively to the gay community. However, subsequent studies indicate that the virus emerged in Central Africa around 1920, although it was not detected until 1981 in the United States. During…
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