![]() ![]() Since then, 32.7 million children and adults have died from HIV/AIDS, and currently more than 38 million persons are living with HIV globally. Knowing that I would be returning to New York City soon thereafter to pursue a career in clinical infectious diseases and public health, he said, “You might want to take a look at this.” Little did I realize then how this report would be the harbinger of a global epidemic and a catalyst that would transform my career and my life. I was sitting at my workstation in the laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, when my mentor walked in and put that MMWR issue on my desk. I vividly recall that spring day four decades ago when I came upon the June 5, 1981, Morbidity and Mortality Reports ( MMWR) issue that reported on the first five Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia cases, a signature condition for AIDS, among young gay men in Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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