Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
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Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.
Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.
The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.
I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.
If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
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