answers: early 1980s
context: and help not only those in the LGBTQ community, but all those affected by HIV/AIDS. Selma Dritz Selma Kaderman Dritz (June 29, 1917 – September 3, 2008) was an American physician and epidemiologist who worked in San Francisco, California, where she began tracking the first known cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the early 1980s. Selma Dritz was born in Chicago, IL, on June 29, 1917. Dritz loved music, and began her career as a concert pianist before deciding that she ultimately wanted to help others through her role in the medical field. Dritz studied medicine at the </s> there were cases of AIDS much earlier than initially known. HIV-infected blood samples have been found from as early as 1959 in Africa "(see HIV main entry)", and HIV has been shown to have caused the death of Robert Rayford, a 16-year-old St. Louis male, in 1969, who could have contracted it as early as 7 years old due to sexual abuse, suggesting that HIV had been present, at very low prevalence, in the U.S. since before the 1970s. An early theory asserted that a series of inoculations against hepatitis B that were performed in the gay community of San </s> AIDS. The most effective vaccine trial to date, RV 144, was published in 2009 and found a partial reduction in the risk of transmission of roughly 30%, stimulating some hope in the research community of developing a truly effective vaccine. Further trials of the RV 144 vaccine are ongoing. There is currently no cure or effective HIV vaccine. Treatment consists of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) which slows progression of the disease. more than 6.6 million people were taking them in low and middle income countries. Treatment also includes preventive and active treatment of opportunistic infections. Current HAART options are
question: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( aids ) was identified as a disease in the