Task_2.docx Task 2- HIV Western Governors University International Outbreak Over the

Task_2.docx    Task 2- HIV  Western Governors University  International Outbreak  Over the years there have been many debates about where Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) started. It is believed that HIV crossed from chimps to humans in the 1920s in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is thought that this happened due to chimps carrying the “Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), a virus closely related to HIV, being hunted and eaten by people living in the area” (AVERT, 2019). It appears that the virus started to spread from a town called Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (AVERT, 2019). Kinshasa had a lot of roads, railways, and rivers which allowed people to travel to and from the town. Unfortunately, at this time there was a great population of migrants, and also sex trade. By the year 1937, HIV had made its way to Brazzaville, a town approximately 75 miles from Kinshasa (AVERT, 2019). During the 1960s, HIV had made its way to the country of Haiti (AVERT, 2019). Haiti was originally blamed for the HIV pandemic, however it did not originate in Haiti.  It is not known when HIV actually made its way to the United States, but the first recognized case of HIV was in 1980 (AVERT, 2019). The first reported cases in the United States were in homosexual men in New York and California. In June of 1981, five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was reported in young, otherwise healthy, men in Los Angeles (AVERT, 2019). In September of 1982, the disease was then named Acquired