1996

Time Magazine named Scientist David Ho (an AIDS cure researcher) as "Man of the Year." 

AIDS deaths in the U.S. dropped by 14,000 people - the second year in a row that the fatality rate had decreased.  

Reports at the International Conference on AIDS indicated there were some HIV infected patients, using combination drug therapies, who had achieved undetectable viral loads. 

The United Nations released a worldwide death toll figure of 6.4 million people.