AIDS live longer and better AIDS: origin and history

1969. This is the date when the AIDS virus was introduced to the United States by a Haitian immigrant.
The island of Haiti has itself seen happen the disease in 1966, via a person from Central Africa. Still farther on over time, it is in the 1930s that AIDS would have spent the species barrier, while human ate contaminated chimpanzee meat. Researchers have recently riled up this origin.
In recent years, the virus spreads, at present mainly in the homosexual community. 1981, the disease begins to ravage and teams of researchers describe for the first time this set of unusual symtômes grouped under the acronym AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The epidemic has spread to the entire planet. Sex, transfusion, needle exchange, childbirth ... We realize that the modes of contamination are numerous, the world panics.May 20, 1983: in the journal "Science", the team led by Professor Luc Montagnier (also Nobel for this discovery) reveals a new virus different from those hitherto suspected of being responsible for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS).1987 is the appearance of the first antiretroviral compound, AZT, and its attendant side effects.1996 appears at first sign the death warrant of HIV: triple therapy can reduce the virus to almost nothing. It is said undetectable in the blood. The first years, side effects of treatment are very heavy, the patient has to swallow dozens of pills a day.2007: triple therapy, today is sometimes only two tablets per day, easily forgotten. But the virus is still there. Simply stop the medication for it again proliferates in the body. Yet attitudes are relaxed and doctors find a daily increase in the number of infections or risk behavior.
More than 25 years after the discovery of the first cases, the AIDS epidemic has devastated entire populations:
 25 million deaths worldwide
 33.2 million HIV-positive today
 6800 people infected each day
 5,700 deaths from, every day, AIDS, 2.1 million deaths in 2007 alreadyLate detectionFrance is no exception to the rule: it is estimated that 140,000 people now live with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. "Only 100000 people know their HIV status and are followed, warned Dr. Marina Karmochkine, physician specializing in the care of people with HIV. It means that 40 000 people live quietly today, unaware that they have HIV . This is doubly unfortunate: they are more likely to have dangerous behavior if they knew they were sick and may not be treated in time. "
Every year in France, 7,000 people are discovering they are infected with HIV. "What is worrying is that this figure has not declined since that monitors" laments Dr. Karmochkine. The difference is that today 50% of people are diagnosed at the stage of full-blown AIDS, that is to say 5 to 20 years after they contracted the virus. It was nice not to talk about as much as in the 1990s, one always dies in 2007 in France, of AIDS. This is the fate of 1,700 people each year.