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Events on Monday 23 April 1984 1
1984HIV identified as cause of AIDSUS and French researchers confirm the virusUS health officials, building on work by French researchers at the Pasteur Institute, announced that a retrovirus later named HIV was the cause of AIDS. The announcement opened the way for a diagnostic blood test and accelerated the search for treatments.