By the end of the year, the first case of HIV's full-blown disease state, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), was documented. This pneumonia sometimes evolved into a chronic condition, which was something specialists had never seen.īy 1981, scientists had begun to connect the dots between these new diagnoses, plus a number of other opportunistic infections. Simultaneously, a rare, aggressive form of pneumonia began to crop up with alarming frequency in another group of patients. A benign, fairly harmless cancer called Kaposi's Sarcoma, common among the elderly, started appearing as a virulent strain in younger patients. 1980sīeginning in the early 1980s, new and unusual diagnostic patterns began to emerge in different parts of the world. The WHO estimates that 97 percent of the world's HIV positive population lives in low income nations where anti-viral treatments are scarce or unavailable. Professional Networking in Public Health.Thesis and Capstone Requirements for Public Health Programs.
