AIDS(A Brief Introduction)
Meaning of AIDS
✤ The word AIDS stands for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome. This means a deficiency of the immune system, acquired during the lifetime of an individual indicating that it is not a congenital disease [disease or abnormality present from birth]. ‘Syndrome’ means a group of symptoms.
✤ AIDS was first reported in 1981 and in the last twenty-five years or so, it has spread all over the world.
✤ Luc Montagnier, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, and their colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Paris were the first to report the discovery of the virus now called the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) associated with AIDS.
Causes of AIDS