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HIV and Third World Countries It does not discriminate against religion, color, gender or ethnicity. It affects people from all walks of life. People have suffered from this disease, and many have lost their lives. Although it is unclear where exactly started, most people believe that the origin of HIV comes from some natural evolutionary event. Long before the disease called AIDS was known by the name “an epidemic had begun” (Diseases and Disorders AIDS 6). Although most believe that HIV originated in other primates, the origin of HIV still debated. The first theory suggested HIV was present in the late 1930s, a consequence of poorly conducted polio vaccine trials. Some even suggested HIV was the result of secret germ warfare research (Diseases and Disorders AIDS 6-7). While researchers fairly certain when HIV first infected man, no one knows for sure how. In 1999, an international team of researchers reported that they had discovered the origins of HIV-1, the predominant strain of HIV in the equatorial region of Africa. They believed that it was introduced into the human population through an exposure to infected blood. It came into contact with human when hunters became exposed to infected subspecies of chimpanzees; however, another possible explanation, in some African tribes, monkey meat is a large part of the diet. Therefore, experts theorize that eating the meat or brain of SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) infected monkeys introduced the virus into the human species, where it changes over time to become HIV. Whatever the case may be this deadly curse, which has ravaged the world since the 1950's, was first discovered in isolated cases in Europe and Africa (Diseases and Disorders AIDS 6). Now this terrible virus is flourishing around the world.