Where we are after 30 years
- 5 June 1981: Center for Disease Control mentions a new virus in its weekly mortality report
- 1982: The term Aids (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) first used
- 1984: Virus identified and named HIV
- 1985: Rock Hudson dies of Aids, teenage haemophiliac Ryan White expelled from school because infected through treatment
- 1987: First showing of Aids Memorial Quilt on National Mall in Washington DC
- 1991: Jeremy Irons wears red ribbon and basketball’s Magic Johnson has the virus
- 1993: Philadelphia film wins two Oscars
- 2000: Infection rate in US among African Americans overtakes that in gay men
- 2011: Global death toll 22m, infections 60m
