How did scientific awareness of HIV begin?
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How did scientific awareness of HIV begin?
1. The United Nations notified the world about an epidemic in Africa.
2. Gay men protested the lack of adequate funding for research on all STIs
3. Physicians noted rare diseases that began appearing among healthy young men in major cities in the United States.
4. The same bacteria that caused other STIs were found to have mutated into a new form.
#3. A couple of the first diseases found in the unlikely population (of healthy-appearing young adults, predominantly male) were Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) and Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS).