The History of HIV AIDS Anatomical Component

The discovery of HIV started with the reporting of rare form of lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). The infection were reported to be seen among young men that was used to be healthy and reported not to have any kind diseases. In the same year, case reports among men with rare and aggressive form of cancer was also seen. The disease was later to be called as Kaposi’s sarcoma. The reporting of this diseases has been very rampant but was not treated with outmost urgency since the cases was then still small and rare. However, at the end of the year, the report of a severe immune deficiency among gay men were reported to increase – around 270 cases and among that number, 121 died.
The history of HIV AIDS has been a very curious case in the early years since the discovery and nomenclature of the disease. Observational studies and case reports has been rampant trying to understand the nature of the disease. While the curiosity of the scientific community has been on focus with the new disease, little was still known about it until 1982 when case reports among homosexual male in the south of California insinuated that the illness might be from contacting or transferring through the sexual contact among gay men, thus, calling it as gay-related immune deficiency (GRID). While the disease is still unknown, many were suspected to carry the disease especially among the gay community. The Center for disease control called it as 'AIDS' (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) and was being reported around the world. In the Africa, Ugandan doctors has been seeing increase in patients with a rare form of fatal wasting which was coined as “slim” due to severe loss of weight. The awareness about the disease has been gaining attention which paved way to the formation of different organizations that specifically promote the causes against the diseases.
The disease continue to gain attention and started to be known to the public health and medical community in the Americas and European cities. In 1983, an increasing reported cases of HIV/AIDS among women whose partners have the disease suggesting it could be passed on via regardless of sexual orientation which was disprove the notion that is heterogenic disease that can only be passed among homosexual. The doctors at the Pasteur Institute work to identify a new retrovirus called Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus (or LAV) that according to them could be the main causal agent of the virus. With the growing concern of the people, the scientific and medical community continuously learning the new disease and later discovered the first reported cases of AIDS among children. The case report lead to the discovery that the virus can transferred via from mother to offspring. Results from further clinical researches revealed that children had probably acquired the disease from their mothers at any time during the birthing process. Another key development in the understanding the pathophysiology of the diseases was the CDC pin-pointed the key pathways of disease transmission, natural history of disease, and ruled-out the causal contact which was some of the key notion at that time. Center for Disease Control published the major breakthrough and was able to come up with the recom...