HIV/AIDS epidemic
Global immunodeficiency crisis
The HIV/AIDS epidemic refers to the global spread of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome that emerged in the early 1980s and has since killed tens of millions.
The term captures both the ongoing crisis and its peak years, when the disease devastated communities before effective treatments existed: The HIV/AIDS epidemic reshaped public health policy worldwide.
In American contexts, it often evokes the government's slow response and the activist movements that emerged in opposition.
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
- transmissionSending of information
- needle exchangeSafe injection supply service
- mother to childParental lineage connection
- harm reductionMinimizing adverse outcomes pragmatically
stigma · prevalence · activism · ACT UP · discrimination · awareness campaigns · immune system · international aid · public health crisis · Ryan White · viral load · testing protocols · community outreach · education programs · health disparities · red ribbon · peer support groups · contact tracing
HIV/AIDS epidemicinfluenza pandemic
Worldwide outbreak of flu
measles outbreak · airborne disease · respiratory illness · whooping cough · common cold
HIV/AIDS epidemicsmallpox
Deadly pustular viral infection
polio · measles · bacterial infections · syphilis · strep throat
AIDS, epidemic, epidemics, epidemiology, epidemiologist, epidemiological, democracy, demographic, demographics