Key Facts. The first cases of what would later become known as AIDS were reported in the United States (U.S.) in June of 1981. Today, there are more than 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S. and there are more than 35,000 new infections each year. people with AIDS have died since the beginning of the epidemic …
Where was the first report of AIDS?
In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection among a group of gay men in Los Angeles.
