This is a picture of HIV co-discoverer Dr. Robert Gallo. On April 23rd 1984, the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced that Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute had isolated the virus which caused AIDS, that it was named HTLV-III, and that there would soon be a commercially available test for the virus. The same day patent applications were filed covering Gallo's work, but it was clearly a possibility that LAV French virus isolate and HTLV-III were the same virus. More about the history of HIV and AIDS can be found at http://www.avert.org/historyi.htm

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