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From : www.gov.mb.ca/health/aids/history.html







A Brief History of HIV/AIDS



Early 1980s: New illness first identified in San Francisco as G.R.I.D. (Gay Related Immune Deficiency). No treatment available.



Mid 1980s: Name changed to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as populations other than gay men affected. Worldwide pandemic declared with particularly high numbers of infection in sub-Saharan Africa. UN AIDS founded to respond. As no effective treatment yet discovered, massive prevention efforts undertaken including screening blood supply for HIV (begins 1985 in Canada).



Late 1980s: Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) identified by French and American scientists as virus that leads to AIDS. AZT and DDI identified as treatment options.



Early 1990s: Decrease of new HIV infections among gay men demonstrates effectiveness of gay community prevention efforts.



Mid - late 1990s:



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Significant increase in HIV incidence among injection drug users, aboriginal populations, women, and street-involved youth.



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H.A.A.R.T. (Highly active anti-retroviral therapy) emerges and is touted as a precursor to a cure for AIDS.



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No one is certain where HIV came from. HIV may have been around for years before it was discovered and, like many viruses, simply needed the right combination of factors to emerge as a global health threat.



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A variety of factors have led to the rapid spread of HIV around the globe. These include increased travel and tourism; increased injection drug use; ongoing wars - particularly civil wars - throughout much of the world (soldiers get exposed to HIV and transmit it to sex partners, rape victims and drug buddies); increasing poverty rates and the subsequent social conditions that include lack of access to medical information and care; conservative social values that prohibit and limit sex education programs, harm reduction programs, and access to treatment; and insufficient resources to battle the AIDS pandemic - particularly in the developing world.



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In Canada the federal government sponsors the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS (CSHA) to help coordinate a pan-Canadian effort to prevent the spread of HIV and to help ensure that those living with HIV/AIDS and those affected can access up-to-date information, as well as treatment, care and support services.



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The CSHA has an annual budget of $42.2 Million. These dollars are used to support a variety of programs including community-based HIV/AIDS initiatives, national non-government organizations working with HIV/AIDS issues, the development of best-practice models for prevention, care, treatment and support, etc.



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The Krever Inquiry investigated allegations from what is commonly referred to as the "tainted blood scandal." Recommendations were made to ensure an efficient and effective blood system in Canada for the future.



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During 1994 and 1995 a community consultation in Manitoba was conducted with input from community leaders, persons living with HIV/AIDS, Aboriginal stakeholders, health care providers and 5 government departments to inform the development of the Manitoba Provincial AIDS Strategy.



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In 1996 the provincial government accepted and endorsed the goals and principles of Manitoba's Provincial AIDS Strategy PDF.



2000 - current:



* In 2001, the provincial government released the Provincial Sexually Transmitted Diseases Strategy.



* In 2005, the provincial government released "As Long as the Waters Flow: An Aboriginal Strategy on HIV/AIDS" PDF.



* There has been a continual creation and availability of more HAART medications.



* In 2004, Canada's first supervised, safe injection site - Insite - opened in Vancouver, B.C.



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