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History of the Definition of AIDS and Its Evolution

Phil Johnson, M.D. discusses the evolution of the definition of AIDS over time and how it evolved as scientific understanding of HIV and AIDS improved over time. Initially it was noticed due to unusual outbreaks of Kaposi's Sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among young gay men and referred to as Gay Related Immune Deficiency. The virus now referred to as HIV was isolated in 1983 and the disease was renamed AIDS for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Today, being HIV positive and having either (a) a CD4 cell count below 200 or (b) one of a number of opportunistic infections results in a diagnosis of AIDS. Visit http://... and http://... to learn more. [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate a video into another language! Click http://... to to learn how you can help!!!]

Channel: Howto
Uploaded: June 12, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Author: AIDSvideos

Length: 00:05:26
Rating: 4.67
Views: 3110

Tags: infection history aids virus hiv definition

Video Comments:

AIDSvideos (October 5, 2008 at 4:01 pm)

No. That's the discredited "Oral Polio Vaccine" hypothesis for the origin of HIV. See the Wikipedia article on "AIDS origin" for a debunking of that theory.

Chubbsman7 (September 27, 2008 at 9:40 am)

According to my research, AIDS is the result of a Polio Vaccine that was made inside of live Chimpanzee Muscle Tissues. When this occured, they administered the Vaccine as a test to over 1 Million African's.Therefore, you can blame Hilary Koprowsky, the developer of the "Vaccine" for Polio. So it is relevant to Polio. My Hypothesis is that if you can find a more powerful Vaccine for Polio, you can possibly find a strand of Non-Changing RNA material to Vaccine for.

alohacaramia (July 9, 2008 at 6:15 pm)

Today we had a guest speaker who had AIDS he had survived it for 20 years, he was in the 1 percent. In Nursing school we say you on an earlier video produce by CE. I told our class of 70 nurses this morning that you are on Youtube, it's great that you are currently active, education the public.

kingnando (March 8, 2008 at 11:22 pm)

You are right. I ve done some research and I agree with your comments. The story of the man-made virus is just an urban legend that floated around for years but thanks to technology we have proved the long history of this disease, which probably has its roots as far back as the 1930s, but gradually started adapting to larger societies. The earliest case Confirmed is from 1959.

AIDSvideos (December 26, 2007 at 11:07 pm)

HIV-1 jumped to humans from the related SIV in chimpanzees. HIV-2 jumped to humans from the related SIV in the sooty mangabey monkey. [Reeves JD, Doms RW. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2." J Gen Virol. 2002 Jun;83(Pt 6):1253-65.] Go to AIDSvideos dot org and read "Myths" and "FAQ" for more info.

AIDSvideos (December 26, 2007 at 11:05 pm)

HIV has been detected in stored blood samples dating all the way back to 1959. [Nahmias et al. Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959 (letter). Lancet 1986;31,1(8492):1279-80.] At that time, humans hadn't even discovered retroviruses, much less developed the technology to design a new one. For some old samples, we have the clinical history of patients who died of then-unexplained symptoms which in retrospect were clearly clinical AIDS.

naika123 (December 26, 2007 at 6:21 pm)

AIDS did not exist before the 80s, that is why it is definitely a man-made disease. If monkeys were carriers of it, surely people would have had it in tropical areas way before the 80s.

M3ridius (August 29, 2007 at 6:31 pm)

Good vid

AIDSvideos (July 21, 2007 at 10:37 pm)

NIAID: "Clinical trials in both HIV-infected children and adults have demonstrated a link between a good virologic response to therapy (i.e. much less virus in the body) and a reduced risk of developing AIDS or dying." [Montaner AIDS 1998;12:F23; Palumbo JAMA 1998;279:756; O'Brien NEJM 1996;334:426; Katzenstein NEJM 1996;335:1091; Marschner J Infect Dis 1998;177:40; Hammer NEJM 1997;337:725; Cameron Lancet 1998;351:543]

AIDSvideos (July 21, 2007 at 10:37 pm)

Viral load IS correlated with disease progression to clinical AIDS and death. NIAID: "the risk of a patient developing AIDS with six years was strongly associated with levels of HIV RNA in the plasma." [Mellors et al. Ann Intern Med 1997;126:946] "Similar associations .... have been observed in HIV-infected children in both developed and developing countries." [Palumbo et al. JAMA 1998;279:756; Taha et al. AIDS 2000;14:453].

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