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Thirty years after the first HIV/AIDS patients were diagnosed, Simon Edwards (Chair of the HIV Committee of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV) tells the story of how extraordinary medical advances have given people living with HIV the possibility to have a normal life expectancy, and changed popular attitudes to the infection.

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The Greatest Medical Success Story of Our Generation

Posted November 30, 2011 | 11:40 AM (EST)

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) first hit the headlines in the medical world in 1981 when five young homosexual men were reported with an pneumonia infection that was known to be associated with a damaged immune system, two of whom died immediately and the other three shortly afterwards.

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