HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Global Health

Authors

  • Usman Waheed Department of Pathology, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Muneeba Azmat Department of General Medicine, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Muhammad Arshad Department of Biotechnology, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Abida Arshad Department of Biology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan AIDS has emerged as a global epidemic in an unprecedented universal involvement compelling the transformation of the general outlook towards disease and the emergence of the concept of global health. First cases of AIDS were reported in 1981
  • Hasan Abbas Zaheer Department of Pathology, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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https://doi.org/10.17140/HARTOJ-2-118

Abstract

AIDS has emerged as a global epidemic in an unprecedented universal involvement compelling the transformation of the general outlook towards disease and the emergence of the concept of global health. First cases of AIDS were reported in 19811 and the causative agent (HIV) was recognized in 1983 by Luc Montagnier.2 Different names were given to the disease initially such as lymphadenopathy, Kaposi’s sarcoma and opportunistic infections, Gay-related immune deficiency and the 4H disease, but ultimately the name AIDS was coined in July 1982.

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2016-02-18

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Usman Waheed, Muneeba Azmat, Muhammad Arshad, Abida Arshad, & Hasan Abbas Zaheer. (2016). HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Global Health. HIV/AIDS/Research/and/Treatment, 2(4), 105–107. https://doi.org/10.17140/HARTOJ-2-118

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