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Arvid Darre Noe (1946–1976) is the alias of a sailor who is the first person known to have contracted HIV and died from AIDS outside of the United States. He is the second person confirmed to have died from AIDS, after Robert Rayford, a teenager from St. Louis, Missouri, who died in May 1969. The true identity of Arvid Noe is unknown and names and places of his life may have been changed to help conceal his identity.
Noe began his career as a sailor in 1961, when he was 15 years old. Journalist Edward Hooper established that Noe had twice visited Africa as a sailor; first from mid-1961 to mid-1962 when Noe worked on the merchant vessel Hoegh Aronde, which traveled the west coast of Africa to Douala, Cameroon. Noe was treated for gonorrhea on this journey. He returned to Africa in 1964, when he reached the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, in eastern Africa.
By 1968, Noe was no longer a sailor and was working as a long haul truck driver throughout Europe (mainly in Germany). Beginning in 1966 Noe suffered from joint pain, lymphedema, and lung infections. His condition stabilized until 1975, when Noe's symptoms worsened, he developed motor control difficulties and dementia, and died. His wife grew ill with similar symptoms; she and their nine-year-old daughter both died in 1977.
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