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 * In 1981 the fist case of AIDS was identified in the United States, it was identified among gay men and called GRID (gay realated imune defieiency).
 * A man was discovered who was thought to have lived in 1959, his body was found in the Belgian Congo, he died from an unexpected illness but, blood samples identified him as the first confirmed case of HIV.
 * On October 2nd, 1985 Rock Hudson, a popular film star, died of AIDS. This brought awarness of AIDS to the public.
 * At the end of 1988 the total number of AIDS cases was reported at 86,000 and still increasing.
 * In 1989 a vaccine was made to delay the onset of AIDS after contracting HIV.
 * It has been reported that in 1999 scientists have linked HIV-1 to chimpanzees in West Equatorial Africa. The disease has thought to been brought over by hunters who were exposed to the chimpanzee blood while hunting.
 * In 1982 the FDA recieved first sumbission for the treatment of AIDS.
 * On August 18th, 1987 the FDA scantioned the first human testing for an AIDS vaccine.
 * In 2007 a reported 127,164 women were pregnant with HIV.
 * In 1984 there were 8,000 confirmed cases of of HIV/AIDS in the United States and 3,700 confirmed deaths.
 * In 1990 the amount of people living with AIDS reaches 1 million.
 * This year, 2009, scientists at UNC Chapel Hill have decoded the structure of the HIV genome.