History of HIV/AIDS

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title: History of HIV/AIDS
text: AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the present pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain – HIV-1 subgroup M – in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo in the 1920s. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent, more easily transmitted, and it is the cause of the vast majority of HIV i
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date created: 2005-07-30T12:13:57Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T10:35:50Z
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