Case Study: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome The spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) that results from prolonged exposure to the HIV virus is the most significant epidemiological occurrence of the latter part of the Twentieth Century. Changes in sexual behaviors in the 1960s and 1970s associated with the “sexual revolution” created a fertile societal environment for the spread of disease. In particular, male homosexuals were the segment of the population most significantly impacted by the infection in the years during which these disea
Case Study: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome The spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome…