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Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

Timeline of Events

1983

5.20.1983

First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal ''Science'' by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.

1991

11.7.1991

Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.

2005

11.13.2005

Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old British man, is reported as the first person proven to have been "cured" of HIV