1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.
The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…
GMN 6995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9161
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC); GOTTLIEB, Michael Stuart (1947 – )
Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.
The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; ho…
GMN 9329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11511
1983 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); ET AL
Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The other h…
GMN 6996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9162
1984 GALLO, Robert Charles (1937 – ); POPOVIC, Mikulas; ET AL
Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.
Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …
GMN 6997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9163
1984 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); DAUGUET, C.; ET AL
A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy Associat…
GMN 11059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13255
1984 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); KALYANARAMAN, V. S.; CABRADILLA, C. D.; ET AL
Antibodies to the core protein of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) in patients with AIDS.
The authors mentioned in a footnote added at the end of the paper that "A specific ELISA test with total LAV proteins detects LAV-speciic antibodies in 95% of LAS patients and 70-95% of AIDS depending on the risk grou…
GMN 12600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14840
1985 KANKI, Phyllis J.; BARIN, Francis; M'BOUP, Souleymane; ET AL
Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.
First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…
GMN 10789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12985
1986 NAHMIAS, André J. (1930 – ); WEISS, Juan E. (1952 – ); YAO, X.; KANKI, Phyllis J.; ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – )
Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…
GMN 9331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11513
1986 CLAVEL, François; GUÉTARD, D.; BRUN-VEZINET, François; ET AL
Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.
HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…
GMN 10788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12984
1986 MCDOUGAL, J. S.; MADDON, P. J.; DALGLEISH, A. G.; ET AL
The T4 glycoprotein is a cell-surface receptor for the AIDS virus.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McDougal, Maddon, Dalgleish. The authors discovered that the T4 lymphocyte cell has an outer glycoprotein on its surface that specifically acts as the receptor for HIV. Witho…
GMN 11042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13238
1986 YARCHOAN, Robert (1950 – ); WEINHOLD, Kent James; LYERLY, Herbert Kim; ET AL
Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13302
1987 SHILTS, Randy (1951 – 1994)
And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.
Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…
GMN 6998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9164
1987 UCSF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS; GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The AIDS History Project.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…
GMN 10557 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12750
1988 FOX, Daniel M. (1938 – ); FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
Aids: The burdens of history. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.
GMN 13682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15964
1990 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
GMN 6994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9160
1991 FOX, Daniel M. (1938 – ); FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
Aids: The making of a chronic disease. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.
GMN 13683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15965
1996 DENG, HongKui; LIU, Rong; ELLMEIER, Wilfried; ET AL
Identification of a major co-receptor for primary isolates of HIV-1.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Deng, Liu, Ellmeier.... This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Nature by: Tatjana Dragic, Virginia Litwin, Graham P. Allaway et al. "HIV-1 entry into …
GMN 11365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13564
1997 LEWIS, Milton James; BAMBER, Scott; WAUGH, Michael
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
GMN 10030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12219
1999 LYONS, Maryinez; LEWIS, Milton James; SETEL, Philip W.
Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
GMN 10031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12220
1999 HAHN, Beatrice H. (1955 – ); GAO, Feng; BAILES, Elizabeth; ROBERTSON, David L.; ET AL
Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Gao, Bailes, Robertson, Hahn. Demonstration, led by Hahn, that HIV-1 originated specifically in the chimpanzee--a mutant of the chimp SIV (SIV-cpz) which acquired mutations s…
GMN 11040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13236
2000 SETEL, Philip W.
A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.
GMN 10033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12222
2006 HAHN, Beatrice H. (1955 – ); KEELE, Brandon F.; HEUVERSWYN, Fran van; LI, Yingying; ET AL
Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…
GMN 11041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13237
2009 HÜTTER, Gero (1968 – ); ET AL
Long-term control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 stem-cell transplantation.
Gero Hütter and co-authors reported the first long-term remission or "cure" of HIV/AIDS in a human. The patient, Timothy Ray Brown also known as "The Berlin Patient" also suffered from myeloid leukemia and underwent s…
GMN 10775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12971
2012 HARDEN, Victoria Angela
AIDS at 30: A history.
GMN 9538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11724
2014 LEMEY, Phillippe; FARIA, Nuno R.; RAMBAUT, Andrew; SUCHARD, Marc A. (1972 – ); ET AL
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.
Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…
GMN 10778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12974
2015 JACKSON, Myles W. (1964 – )
The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.
"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Sma…
GMN 11368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13567
2016 LEMEY, Phillippe; WOROBEY, Michael; WATTS, Thomas D.; MCKAY, Richard A.; ET AL
1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America.
By genetic analysis of HIV, Worobey, Lemey and colleagues from the social sciences "cleared" Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian air steward, who previously had been identified by name as Patient Zero--the source of the epidemic…
GMN 10779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12975
2017 CZERWIEC, M. K.
Taking turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371.
"In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taki…
GMN 9828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12016
2017 WENC, Christine
HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.
https://archive-it.org/collections/8400 HIV/AIDS "A collection of websites selected and archived by the National Library of Medicine on biomedical, clinical, cultural, and social aspects of HIV/AIDS in the early 21st …
GMN 9958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12147
2020 JIANG, Chenyang; LIAN, Xiadong; GAO, Ce; ET AL
Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1.
The authors describe a mechanism for the observed natural viral "immunity" of individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1. A very few exceptional people have the molecular ability to steer the incoming/infecting cel…
GMN 13479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15753
2020 ROYLES, Dan
To make the wounded whole: The African American struggle against HIV/AIDS.
GMN 13725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16009
2021 ALBRECHT, Donald; LACHER-FELDMAN, Jessica; VALENTI, William Michael
Up against the wall: Art, activism, and the AIDS poster. Edited by Donald Albrecht and Jessica Lacher-Feldman. Medical and consulting editor William M. Valenti.
Documents the power and impact of nearly 200 examples of AIDS posters from around the world and the social activism that continues to bring awareness to a disease without vaccine or a cure. Selected from the 8000 post…
GMN 13373 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15644
