True or false: The first documented case of AIDS caused by HIV infection in the United States was in a homosexual man who died in the early 1980s.
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Mark all of the TRUE statements: Select one or more: a. HIV has also been known as LAV, ARV, HTLVIII. b. San Francisco became the first area where more than 50% of people living with an AIDS diagnosis was above 50-years old. c. The United States government took an early leadership role in providing frank education of HIV/AIDS. d. A gay lifestyle was among the suspected causes of GRID because gay men had anal sex and used poppers.
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Which of the following statements about the history of HIV disease is FALSE? Select one: a. HTLV-III, later known as HIV, was the first human retrovirus ever discovered. b. Treatments for AIDS conditions were available early in the epidemic, but not for the virus that caused AIDS. c. HIV was isolated by Luc Montaignier's group at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and independently by Jay Levy at UCSF. d. An early source of potential therapies for AIDS was through community groups called Buyers' Clubs. e. The CDC had a definition of AIDS before there was a known etiological agent for the disease.
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