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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a set of symptoms and infections resulting from the damage to the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infection and tumor. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV,... full article at wikipedia

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.	Tyron edwards
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.	Susan Sontag
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.	Barbara Ehrenreich
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.	Susan Sontag
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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