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ealth Division, International Organization for Migration Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Director-General, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Democratic Republic of the Congo Thomas Nierle, President of the Board in Switzerland, Medecins Sans Frontieres Mary Ann Peters, Chief Executive Officer, The Carter Center A

iency virus (HIV), an international research team has just confi=med that the scourge broke out in 1920 in Kinshasa, the capital of what is now =he Democratic Republic of the Congo. By comparing this result with historical data, researchers explain how, from a single contamination by a chimpanzee, HIV spread to humans. A