Epidemiology of HIV Infection in the Developing World
Summary
- Origin of HIV
- HIV is likely to have originated from a form of simian immunodeficiency virus found in the West-Central African chimpanzee[Gao 1999]
- HIV is believed to have entered the United States via Haiti in the late 1960s[Gilbert 2007]
- 2 types of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2
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