ID: 901001494 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001494	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	AIDS pandemic (global event, from late 20th century)

Note: Global dissemination of the disease Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. In 2014, it was estimated that 36.9 people were living with HIV/AIDS globally, with 2 million people being newly diagnosed. The highest areas of concentration are Sub-Sahran Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the United States.

Display Date: from late 20th century

Names:

	AIDS pandemic (global event, from late 20th century) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	HIV/AIDS Pandemic (global event, from late 20th century) (English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<Global historical events> (P)
		........AIDS pandemic (global event, from late 20th century) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... pandemic
	.....(epidemics, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	affiliated/associated with .... AIDS (medical syndrome)
	.....(communicable disease, disease, health-related concepts, health and related concepts, biological concepts, scientific concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	AIDS pandemic (global event, from late 20th century)
	................US National Library of Medicine [online], 2016-. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ (28 September 2016). (28 September 2016). “The Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic,” accessed 28 September 2016,
	HIV/AIDS Pandemic (global event, from late 20th century)
	................CDC: Centers for Disease Control (2016) "The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, 2006;" accessed 28 September 2016

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine (2016-) "Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic," accessed 28 September 2016