See Also: AIDS Denialism and HIV Myths and Misunderstandings

Background Information

• Where Did HIV Come From? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Origin of HIV and AIDS (Avert)

Selected Recent Articles

• Meet a Very, Very Long-Term Survivor.  (August 2016, Poz)
• Genetic Research Into Early AIDS Cases Further Debunks “Patient Zero” Myth.  (March 2016, Poz)
• Monkeys Have Had HIV-Like Viruses for Millions of Years.  (August 2015, Poz)
• Some Types of HIV Originated in West African Gorillas.  (March 2015, Poz)
• African-American HIV Conspiracy Theories Derive From Mistrust.  (February 2015, Poz)
• HIV Likely Spread Out of Kinshasa, the Congo, in 1920s.  (October 2014, Poz)
• A new patient zero? Researchers may have spotted animal-to-human immunodeficiency virus transfer. (March 2012, AIDSmap)
• Colonialism Sparked the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. (February 2012, Poz)
• Point of Origin: The Discovery and Spread of HIV. (January/February 2011, Positively Aware)
• New strain of HIV originates in gorillas. (August 2009, AIDSmap)