Earliest record of appearance of HIV-1 antibodies in frozen
blood sera is from 1963 in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta).
In 1960 Africa was in the midst of decolonialization and civil
war with United Nations troops on the ground.  In 1958, a sailor
from Manchester, England, died of what was later identified as
AIDS, and 'twas also in 1958 that a new phenomenon of total
immune deficiency began cropping up in patients with leukemia.
In 1956 there was a Middle East conflict involving Britain,
France, and the Soviet Union on the sidelines... the Soviet
Union told the Europeans to back out or be nuked.  Under
pressure from the U.S., the Europeans did back out.  In 1958
another immune deficiency disease, Burkitt's lymphoma, showed up
in central Africa.  In 1960 unprecedented joint meetings were
held between American and Soviet molecular virologists.  In
1960, the U.S. instituted an FDA ban of vaccines produced on
monkey kidney tissue.