1984 - AIDS breakthrough

Sense and Sensibility - sta

Pictured are French scientists Luc Montagnier, Jean-Claude Chermann and Françoise Barre-Sinoussi, who helped to discover the causes of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome) - the fatal disease which was sweeping through America in the early 1980s, in the Pasteur Institute of Paris. However, despite the isolation of the HTLV-3 /LAV virus, AIDS has gone on to claim more than 26 million lives to date.