Tag Archives: AIDS
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome / Human Immunodeficiency Virus
The word AIDS is an acronym that stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and is no of the deadly diseases prevalent in the world today. A recent study on AIDS has reported that today almost 33 million people are living with this syndrome and almost 25 million people have died because of this disease since the disease was first identified in the year 1981.
Most of us are aware of the criminal behind this disease, the human immunodeficiency virus, commonly known as HIV. This is a kind of retrovirus that targets a particular kind of cell in the immune system for its growth and expansion.
