Things about HIV, AIDS

In 2008, a total of 1,178,350 people in the United States living with HIV suffer, but in fact 20% of them do not know and did not realize that he is infected and the disease.
Provision of ARVs early after the diagnosis was able to reduce HIV transmission to sexual partners as much as 96%.
Antiretroviral drugs are drugs to treat infections caused by retroviruses, including one of which is HIV. However, these drugs can only inhibit the growth of viruses, not curing.
Until now, HIV has infected more than 60 million people worldwide, half dead and only one person who identified healed.More than 5 million children under the age of 15 currently living with HIV or suffering from 2500 new infections occur every day around the world according to UNICEF reports.
On June 5, 1981, 5 active homosexual men diagnosed with Pneumocystis carinii. No one knows that's when the first AIDS in America.
Prior named AIDS as we know it today, this disease was called GRID (gay-related immune deficiency).
But since GRID is not only gay people then in July of 1982 this new disease named AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome).
The word "acquired" indicates that AIDS is not a hereditary disease and the word "syndrome" suggests that AIDS = a collection of symptoms, is not a disease.
Late 1982, found evidence that AIDS is transmitted through blood, it is unknown when an infant suffering from the syndrome of AIDS while receiving blood transfusions.
1983, Luc Montagnier, Francoise Barré-Sinoussi together from the Pasteur Institute had isolated the virus that causes AIDS.
Finally in March 1987, anti-HIV drugs first launched with the name of azidothymidine (AZT).
In 1994: giving AZT to pregnant women with HIV can reduce transmission of HIV from mother to fetus in the womb.
Prior to be named HIV, the virus that causes AIDS was called by the name of HTLV (human T-cell leukemia viruses) and LAV (lymphadenopathy-associated virus).
When inside the human body, HIV virus to duplicate itself into billions in just a day.
HIV is the result of a mutation of SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) found in chimpanzees.
SIV in chimpanzees mutated into HIV and entered into the human body when a hunter allegedly butchering chimpanzees for food.
February 2003, the first vaccine for HIV in the trial, but the vaccine failed to protect humans from HIV infection.
In some research to prove that circumcision or circumcision was found to reduce the likelihood of contracting HIV through sexual intercourse.
Interestingly though the origin of bakalnya of chimpanzees, monkeys other families that Baboon can not be infected with HIV virus.
Timothy Ray Brown, otherwise known as the "Berlin Patient" is the first and the only survivors of HIV.
Until now why Timothy Ray Brown to get rid of HIV is still a matter of debate and research experts.
2008, Francoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier get a nobel prize for his services to find the virus that causes AIDS.