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HIV/AIDS

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Summary

HIV/AIDS is a pandemic[1]. HIV/AIDS ranks in the top 6% of pandemic entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (50,895 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: class of disease[3], symptom or sign[4], disease[5]
  • Location of discovery: Kinshasa[6], Democratic Republic of the Congo[7]
  • Subclass of: HIV infection[8], acquired immunodeficiency[9], sexually transmitted infection[10], pandemic and epidemic-prone diseases[11], endemic disease[12], syndrome[13]
  • Commons category: AIDS[14]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1959[15]
  • Start time: 1959[16]
  • ICPC 2 ID: B90[17]
  • Afflicts: Homo sapiens[18]
  • Symptoms and signs: fever[19], lymphadenopathy[20], diarrhea[21], lethargy[22], weight loss[23], rash[24], opportunistic infection[25], Kaposi's sarcoma[26], lymphoma[27], peripheral neuropathy[28], night sweats[29], myalgia[30], sore throat[31], fatigue[32]
  • Has cause: HIV[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:HIV/AIDS[34]
  • Medical examination: blood test[35], ELISA[36], blotting[37], rapid antigen test[38]
  • Possible treatment: antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS[39], pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV[40], post-exposure prophylaxis[41]
  • Anatomical location: T-lymphocytes[42]
  • Commons gallery: AIDS[43]
  • Number of deaths: 1,000,000[44], 1,700,000[45], 32,000,000[46]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for HIV/AIDS include World AIDS Day[47], a world day[48], founded in 1988[49].

Why It Matters

HIV/AIDS has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] HIV/AIDS is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

Entities named for HIV/AIDS include World AIDS Day[47], a world day[48], founded in 1988[49].

Related Entities

AIDS Institute, University of Hong Kong Alvin Ailey Arthur Ashe Barcelona Institute for Global Health Bruce Chatwin Center for Global Infectious Disease Research Centre québécois de coordination sur le sida Dallas Buyers Club Democratic Republic of the Congo Denholm Elliott Derek Jarman disease Eazy-E Freddie Mercury Gia Carangi infectious diseases IrsiCaixa Jacques Demy John Holmes Keith Haring Michael Jeter Michel Foucault Philadelphia Robert Gallo Rock Hudson

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . DBpedia. dbpedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . emro.who.int. emro.who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . aidsinfo.nih.gov. aidsinfo.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . hiv.gov. Retrieved . hiv.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . hiv.gov. Retrieved . hiv.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . hiv.gov. Retrieved . hiv.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . hiv.gov. Retrieved . hiv.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . hiv.gov. Retrieved . hiv.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . cdc.gov. cdc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . who.int. who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . unaids.org. unaids.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . who.int. Retrieved . who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16h ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-ERyH-eSug-f9Qi
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic id: tg-ERyH-eSug-f9Qi, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250708291|HIV/AIDS (#250708291)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|eska.pl topic"
  2. 16d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gemet id → 243
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'a
    Sitelink count → 209
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gemet id: 243, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/152600147|AIDS (#152600147)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5959|GEMET ID]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 24d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → s/sida
    Instance of → pandemic, class of disease, symptom or sign +1
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: s/sida, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275041|batch #275041]]"
  4. 10w ago · Werter1995 · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → pandemic, class of disease, symptom or sign +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: manner of death"
  5. 10w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → pandemic, class of disease, symptom or sign +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Instance of: disease"
  6. 13w ago · Tunyk · 2026-07-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → simian acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, primary immunodeficiency disease
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: primary immunodeficiency disease"
  7. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → enGNX, 2Iskf1
    P14483 → s/sida
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 14w ago · Lupumpara · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → s/sida
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||it, en */"
  9. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → pandemic, class of disease, symptom or sign +1
    Subclass of → HIV infection, acquired immunodeficiency, sexually transmitted infection +3
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39953|batch #39953]]: deprecate redundant disease superclasses (2)"
  10. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → HIV infection, acquired immunodeficiency, sexually transmitted infection +3
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  11. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → aids
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: aids, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289912051|aids (#289912051)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  12. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000853-AIDS
    Uk parliament thesaurus id → 10724
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0000853-AIDS, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  13. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Disease burden → {'unit': 'Q55627', 'amount': '+91907445'}
    Facet of → human health
    Drug or therapy used for treatment → delavirdine, saquinavir, indinavir +20
    Health specialty → infectious diseases
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 12005, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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