Epidemiology

UN Says HIV/AIDS Epidemic Is Still In Early Stages

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 26th, 2001

On the 20^th anniversary of the first published report on AIDS, United Nations experts warned on June 5, 2001, that in many countries the epidemic is still in its early stages.

"HIV is characterized by a relatively long gap between infection and major illness," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the UN's Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). "Its natural dynamic is to show up first among those at heightened risk, while at the same time it gradually moves across the whole of the sexually active population."

The first official documentation of the disease that came to be known as AIDS was made on June 5, 1981, in a nine-paragraph...

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