AIDS

  • (noun): A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.
    Synonyms: acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Some articles on aids:

White Night Riots - Analysis - Effects On The AIDS Movement
... The gay community was eventually seriously affected by the AIDS epidemic, and Jones became a key AIDS activist ... Sarcoma Research Education Foundation, which in 1982 became the San Francisco AIDS Foundation ... anniversary of the Moscone-Milk assassinations, Jones learned that 1,000 people had died of AIDS ...
Jonathan Wells (intelligent Design Advocate) - AIDS Denialism
... that a retrovirus called HIV causes the group of diseases called AIDS ... for their questioning of the scientific and medical consensus that HIV causes AIDS ... Wells, Johnson, and others for denying the HIV/AIDS connection and promoting denialism via a petition designed to garner publicity but without any scientific support ...
Lil' Kim - Philanthropy
... and the MAC AIDS Fund ... fans and help raise money and awareness for the cause, which helps people who are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide ... several other popular recording artists, released the song under the name "Artists Against AIDS Worldwide", with proceeds going to AIDS programs worldwide and also United Ways September 11th ...
Jason Robertson
... Jason Robertson (August 28, 1980 - September 4, 2003) was an AIDS activist ... His battle to attend school as a boy with AIDS in the 1980s helped other children with the same condition to overcome the hurdle ... He was diagnosed with AIDS, which he contracted through blood products used to treat his hemophilia, in 1986 ...
Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus - History
... With the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, there was a sudden epidemic resurgence of KS affecting primarily gay and bisexual AIDS patients with up to 50% of reported AIDS patients ... transmitted virus that rarely causes tumors unless the host becomes immunosuppressed, as in AIDS. 1994, by isolating DNA fragments of a herpesvirus from a Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) tumor in an AIDS patient ...

Famous quotes containing the word aids:

    Do not put off your work until tomorrow and the day after. For the sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor the one who puts off his work; industry aids work, but the man who puts off work always wrestles with disaster.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
    Amanda Heggs, British AIDS sufferer. Quoted in Guardian (London, June 12, 1989)

    The issue is a mighty one for all people and all time; and whoever aids the right, will be appreciated and remembered.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)