The first case of AIDS was discovered in 1981 in which city?
HIV/AIDS in the United States HIV/AIDS in the United States The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States as early as 1960, but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. Treatment of HIV/AIDS is primarily via a "drug cocktail" of protease inhibitors, and education programs to help people avoid infection. Initially, infected foreign nationals were turned back at the U.S. border to help prevent additional infections. The number of U.S. deaths from AIDS have declined sharply
HIV/AIDS in New York City these two cities should not be compared because of the great difference the population of the two cities and that New York saw a great number of cases due to intravenous drug use. Early in the crisis, many critics in New York looked to San Francisco because San Francisco was the only other major city that confronted multiple deaths from AIDS. The Center of Disease Control (CDC) reported the first case of AIDS in the country in 1980, Ken Horne, a San Francisco resident. On June 13, 1985, Victor Botnick reported 932 cases of AIDS in San Francisco. By September