HIV epidemic
Viral immunity catastrophe
The HIV epidemic refers to the widespread outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus that emerged in the early 1980s and continues globally.
The term often specifically evokes the initial crisis years, when the disease was poorly understood and devastated gay communities: He lost dozens of friends during the HIV epidemic.
The epidemic killed millions before effective treatments became available and remains ongoing in parts of the world with limited healthcare access.
- AIDS crisisHIV epidemic's deadly peak
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
- testEvaluative examination
- transmissionSending of information
- mother to childParental lineage connection
nurse · prevalence · stigma · intersectionality · harm reduction · doctor · blood · discrimination · advocacy · immune system · resilience · needle · needle exchange · incidence · viral load · activism · condom · clinic
- South AfricaCape Town, Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela, Pretoria, Durban
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, health education, community health
- epidemicsoutbreak, disease, Black Death, cholera, virus
- HIV/AIDSHIV, AIDS, AIDS crisis, AIDS quilt, antiretrovirals
- US Medical Historypolio vaccine, Jonas Salk, Salk vaccine, Clara Barton, Walter Reed
epidemic, epidemics, epidemiological, epidemiology, epidemiologist, demo, demotic, democracy, democratic