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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) causes AIDS (Autoimmune deficiency syndrome) and reduces the ability of body to fight infection.
HIV was first found in 1959 in a man from Democratic Republic of the Congo and then announced as a world pandemic by WHO.
Approximately 37.9 million people were infected with HIV globally in 2018 but the pandemic statistics vary around the world. Sub-Saharan Africa was most infected region from HIV in 2018 where 61% population was infected from HIV/AIDS. In South & South-East Asia, about 12% of all people infected with HIV in 2010.
Now WHO announced HIV as 'global epidemic".