We may never know where or how HIV and AIDS began. Many experts believe that AIDS was present in the United States, Europe, and Africa for several decades or longer before the earliest cases appeared in 1980 and 1981.
HIV was first identified in 1984 by French and American scientists, but the human immunodeficiency virus did not get its name until 1986.
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