GC: n

S: http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/aids-patient-care-and-stds/1/ (last access: 26 September 2015); TERMIUMPLUS; GDT.

N: An AIDS patient is not to be called a “victim” or a “sufferer,” according to the lexicon approved by a World Health Organization conference. Instead, he is a “person with AIDS.” … The preferred usage then became the acronym PWA for “People With AIDS.” … AIDS advocacy groups decided that the public tended to think of PWAs as people lying around about to die. To change that perceived perception, they decided that newspapers should start using the term “People Living With AIDS,” or PLWA, reasoning that people would start to think of them as L-ing beings rather than D-ing ones.

S: TERMIUMPLUS

SYN: 1. patient with AIDS. 2. AIDS sufferer. 3. PWA, person living with AIDS, PLWA, person with AIDS, AIDS person.

S: 1. https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/just-diagnosed-with-hiv-aids/your-legal-rights/legal-disclosure/ (last access: 26 September 2015); GDT – http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=1299005 (last access: 26 September 2015). 2. NAVARRO p. 30. 3. GDT – http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=1299005 (last access: 26 September 2015).

CR: AIDS