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Examines the theory that AIDS originated in African chimpanzees. Evidence of its origin; Protests of Africans on its origin; How HIV virus may have passed from animals to humans.

Profiles Anne Bayley, who first identified the presence of AIDS in Zambia. Career highlights, including how she came to Zambia as a British missionary doctor in 1961; History of the disease's spread in Africa; Patients treated by Bayley at her tumor clinic for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), whom she recognized as having AIDS; How the association of AIDS with homosexuality greatly inhibited scientific understanding of the disease's transmission; Bayley's contributions to AIDS research; Her personal views on AIDS.