The battle against HIV/AIDS has been going more than 40 years.

In the first week of June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report “Pneumocystis Pneumonia — Los Angeles.” The article describes cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, in five young, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles. Los Angeles immunologist Dr. Michael Gottlieb, CDC’s Dr. Wayne Shandera and their colleagues reported that all the men have other unusual infections as well, indicating that their immune systems are not working. Two had already died by the time the report was published and the others would die soon after. This edition of the MMWR marks the first official reporting of what will later become known as the A

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