<Li> July 9, The CDC reports a cluster of opportunistic infections (OI) and Kaposi's sarcoma among Haitians recently entering the United States . </Li> <Li> July 27, The term AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is proposed at a meeting in Washington of gay - community leaders, federal bureaucrats and the CDC to replace GRID (gay - related immune deficiency) as evidence showed it was not gay specific . </Li> <Li> Summer, First known case in Italy . </Li> <Li> September 24, The CDC defines a case of AIDS as a disease, at least moderately predictive of a defect in cell - mediated immunity, occurring in a person with no known cause for diminished resistance to that disease . Such diseases include KS, PCP, and serious OI . Diagnoses are considered to fit the case definition only if based on sufficiently reliable methods (generally histology or culture). Some patients who are considered AIDS cases on the basis of diseases only moderately predictive of cellular immunodeficiency may not actually be immunodeficient and may not be part of the current epidemic . </Li>

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