When was HIV discovered first?

In 1983, Luc Montagnier’s team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris discovered HIV‑1. Using the established techniques, they cultured T cells from a lymph node biopsy from a 33-year-old homosexual French patient with symptoms that can precede AIDS (subsequently called pre-AIDS), such as lymphadenopathy.

How did HIV start in the first place?

HIV infection in humans came from a type of chimpanzee in Central Africa. The chimpanzee version of the virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV) was probably passed to humans when humans hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came in contact with their infected blood.

Who was the first person with HIV?

While HIV was killing people in Africa long before it ever affected the rest of the world the first case to make headlines was that of a 10 (?) year old boy named Ryan White. He contracted the disease by a blood transfusion.