ABC/AIDS Timeline
| Early 1980s: | Awareness of AIDS began |
| 1984: | The "ABCs of STI" appears in a US publication, Educators Guide to STDs |
| 1987: | Global Programme on AIDS (GPA) established WHO Global AIDS Strategy endorsed by the UN General Assembly |
| 1988: | USAID funds its first AIDS projects: AIDSTETCH and AIDSCOM |
| 1992: | GPA revises its Global AIDS Strategy and mentions A, C and B Juan Flavier, Secretary of Health in the Philippines first coins the term ABC internationally |
| 1994: | Father Bernard Joinet in Tanzania develops the "Fleet of Hope" boats of A, C and F(idelity) |
| 2003: | PEPFAR announced |
| 2005: | ABC Guidance #1 issued by PEPFAR |


