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A UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000

Date
5 Jun 1986
Updated
30 Sep 2019
A UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000

A United Nations report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) reported that 5 gay men in California were suffering from a rare pneumonia (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia or PCP). This strain of pneumonia was found in patients with weakened immune systems. Later in the 1980s, a blood sample taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1959 was tested and revealed the HIV virus. This suggested that HIV/AIDS might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s.  Today Africa has millions of people who have HIV/AIDS.

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  1. 01Body-Evans, A. ‘This Day in African History: 5 June’, from About African Hsitory, [online], available at https://africanhistory.about.com (Accessed: 20 May 2013)
  2. 02South African History Online, ‘The first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA’, [online], available at www.sahistory.org.za (Accessed: 20 May 2013)  

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2013, May 31). A UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095802

South African History Online (2013) 'A UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000', South African History Online, 31 May. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095802 (Accessed: 31 August 2026).

South African History Online, A UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000 [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095802, (accessed 31 August 2026).

"A UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000." South African History Online, 31 May 2013, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095802. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "A UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000." South African History Online. May 31, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095802.

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