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The HIV epidemic 40 years on: 5 essential reads on breakthroughs, blind spots and new challenges
In June 1981 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a rare form of pneumonia in young gay men in California. Although they didn’t know it at the time, these were the first documented cases of AIDS. In 1983, HIV – the virus responsible …