The CDC reported that an estimated 45% of Americans living with HIV are over age 50, 25% are 55 and older and 6% are over 65.
The Food and Drug Administration approved azidothymidine, also known as AZT, for the treatment of AIDS.
SmithsonianMag.com reports that "some time around 1920, a person carried a virus from Cameroon toward the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The virus was a strain of HIV, and the city provided the perfect storm of conditions to ignite the AIDS epidemic."