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GC: n

S: WHO – https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/hiv-aids (last access: 16 February 2025); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/sources-definitions/aids.htm (last access: 16 February 2025).

N: 1. 1982, acronym formed from “acquired immune deficiency syndrome”. AIDS cocktail attested by 1997, the thing itself said to have been in use from 1995.

2. AIDS, byname of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, transmissible disease of the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a lentivirus (literally meaning “slow virus”; a member of the retrovirus family) that slowly attacks and destroys the immune system, the body’s defense against infection, leaving an individual vulnerable to a variety of other infections and certain malignancies that eventually cause death.

3. Viral Diseases; Immunology: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

An epidemic, transmissible retroviral disease due to infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), manifested in severe cases as profound depression of cell-mediated immunity.

4. Collocations:

Adj.: full-blown.
Quant.: case Six cases of Aids have been reported.
Verb + Aids: have, suffer from | be/become infected with, contract, develop, get | die of | diagnose.
Aids + noun: patient, sufferer, victim | virus.
Phrases: the spread of Aids a worldwide campaign to prevent the spread of Aids.

5. Cultural Interrelation:

Books: Tell the Wolves I’m Home, novel by Carol Rifka Brunt, And The Band Played on Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987), nonfiction book by Randy Shilts.
Movies: And the Band Played On (1993) by Roger Spottiswoode, Philadelphia (1993) by Jonathan Demme.

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=AIDS (last access: 16 February 2025). 2. EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/10414/AIDS (last access: 29 July 2014). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=sida&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 16 February 2025). 4. OCD – http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search?word=aids (last access: 11 June 2015). 5. CRIFK – http://www.carolrifkabrunt.com/tell-the-wolves-im-home/ (last access: 29 July 2013); Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Band-Played-Politics-Epidemic-20th-Anniversary/dp/0312374631 (last access: 22 February 2025); IMDb – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106273/, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107818/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2 (last access: 22 February 2025).

OV: Aids

S: OD – http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search?word=aids (last access: 11 June 2015)

SYN: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=sida&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 16 February 2025)