"words describe the same phenomenon, but no precedence is discernible (e.g., ""necronym"" and ""penthonym""). New words are sometimes created, the meaning of which duplicating existing terms. On occasion, new words are formed with little regard to historical principles. -onym The suffix -onym, in English and other languages, means ""word, name"", and words ending in ""-onym"" refer to a specified kind of name or word, most of which are classical compounds. For example, an acronym is a word formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term (as radar). The"
"diseases that were associated with it, for example, lymphadenopathy, the disease after which the discoverers of HIV originally named the virus. They also used ""Kaposi's sarcoma and opportunistic infections"", the name by which a task force had been set up in 1981. At one point, the CDC coined the phrase ""the 4H disease"", since the syndrome seemed to affect heroin users, homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and Haitians. In the general press, the term ""GRID"", which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined. However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community, it was realized that the term GRID"
"of phono-semantic matching. For example, the Icelandic-looking word ""eyðni"", meaning ""AIDS"", is a PSM of the English acronym ""AIDS"", using the pre-existent Icelandic verb ""eyða"", meaning ""to destroy"", and the Icelandic nominal suffix ""-ni"". Similarly, the Icelandic word ""tækni"", meaning ""technology, technique"", derives from ""tæki"", meaning ""tool"", combined with the nominal suffix ""-ni"", but is, in fact, a PSM of the Danish (or international) ""teknik"", meaning ""technology, technique"". ""Tækni"" was coined in 1912 by Dr Björn Bjarnarson from Viðfjörður in the East of Iceland. It had been in little use until the 1940s, but has ever since become highly common,"
"""GRID"", which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined. The CDC, in search of a name, and looking at the infected communities coined ""the 4H disease"", as it seemed to single out homosexuals, heroin users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians. However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community, it was realized that the term GRID was misleading and ""AIDS"" was introduced at a meeting in July 1982. By September 1982 the CDC started using the name AIDS. In 1983, two separate research groups led by American Robert Gallo and French investigators Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier independently"
"the same period. This achievement was the result of great efforts by national HIV programmes supported by civil society and a range of development partners. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. This new disease of the human immuna system was named 'Acquired Immuno Deficiensy Sydndrome' (AIDS), when first described in United States in August 1981. It harms your immune system by destroying the white blood cells that fight infection. This puts you at risk for serious infections and certain cancers. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, it is the final stage of infection with HIV. Not everyone with HIV develops"
"a sexually transmitted infectious agent might be the etiological agent, and the syndrome was initially termed ""GRID"", or gay-related immune deficiency. Health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not homosexual men. The same opportunistic infections were also reported among hemophiliacs, users of intravenous drugs such as heroin, and Haitian immigrants – leading some researchers to call it the ""4H"" disease. By August 1982, the disease was being referred to by its new CDC-coined name: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). In New York City, Nathan Fain, Larry Kramer, Larry Mass, Paul Popham, Paul"
"years before AIDS was named, initially having been called GRID, standing for gay-related immune deficiency, which Hill and others fought against. Hill is credited as authoring the first safe-sex pamphlet in the United States to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS, which was circulated by the group Citizens for Human Equality in 1982. In 1980 Hill, while serving as general manager of the station, created ""The Prison Show"" which he hosted on KPFT-FM. The show combined prison news with people who had family or friends in prison calling in to the show so that they could talk to"
"are found in all six possible reading frames (RFs) of HIV-1 complete genome sequence, but only a few of them are functional. With 'M' for ""major"", this is by far the most common type of HIV, with more than 90% of HIV/AIDS cases deriving from infection with HIV-1 group M. This major HIV virus which was the source of pre-1960 pandemic viruses originated in the 1920s in Kinshasa, which is now known as the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The M group is subdivided further into clades, called subtypes, that are also given a letter. There are"
"within phenotypic clusters of diseases. One example is asthma, which is considered to be a syndrome, consisting of a series of endotypes. This is related to the concept of disease entity. Other example could be AIDS, where an HIV infection can produce several clinical stages. AIDS is defined as the clinical stage IV of the HIV infection. Cause (medicine) Cause, also known as etiology () and aetiology, is the reason or origination of something. The word is derived from the Greek , ""aitiologia"", ""giving a reason for"" (, ""aitia"", ""cause""; and , ""-logia""). In medicine, the term refers to the"
"was misleading and the term AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982. By September 1982 the CDC started referring to the disease as AIDS. In 1983, two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with AIDS, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal ""Science"". Gallo claimed that a virus his group had isolated from a person with AIDS was strikingly similar in shape to other human T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLVs) his group had been the first to isolate. Gallo's group called their"
"Abecedarius An abecedarius (also abecedary and abecedarian) is a special type of acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the letters in the alphabet. ""Abecedarius"" (or ""abecedarium"") is a Medieval Latin word meaning ""ABC primer"", derived by adding the suffix ""-arius"" (-a, -um) to the names of the first four letters of the alphabet (a+b+c+d). According to the OED, the earliest use of its English cognate, ""abecedary"", dates back at least to the mid-15 century, preceding the first usage of ""abecedarian"" which, as an adjective meaning ""arranged in alphabetical order"", can"
"known as AIDS. Having heard of a very rare form of cancer that struck some gay men, Lawrence D. Mass, the paper's medical writer, called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was advised that the rumors of a ""gay cancer"" were unfounded. He then wrote a story headlined: ""Disease Rumors Largely Unfounded."" Mass wrote: Next month, on June 5, 1981, the CDC published the world's first clinical report on what became AIDS in ""Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report"" (MMWR). On that same date, the CDC report was picked up and reported by the ""Los Angeles Times"" as"
"AIDS-related complex AIDS-related complex, or ARC, was introduced after discovery of the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) when the medical community became aware of the inherent difficulties associated with treating patients suffering from an advanced case of HIV which gave rise to the term Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The necessity for doctors to quickly and accurately understand the special needs of unknown patients suffering from AIDS in an emergency department situation was addressed with the creation of the term ARC. ARC is a prodromal phase of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that includes: low grade fever, unexplained weight"
"Words (Russian: слова). Writing poetry following the same principle is called ""capping verses."" Various other variants exist, such as Ancient Greek skolion. Word chain Word chain, also known as Grab on Behind, Last and First, Alpha and Omega, and The Name Game. is a word game in which players come up with words that begin with the letter or letters that the previous word ended with. A category of words is usually chosen, there is a time limit such as five seconds, and words may not be repeated in the same game. An example chain for food would be: Soup"
"O"" (pronounced ""oh"", and standing for ""Out-of-California""); misconstruing of the letter ""O"" as 0 (zero) led to the origin of the term ""patient zero."" The extent to which HIV/AIDS was known about in the early 1980s, how it was spread, or when Dugas was diagnosed are disputed. Dugas worked as a flight attendant for Air Canada and died in Quebec City in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. A study published in ""The American Journal of Medicine"" in 1984 traced many early HIV infections to an unnamed infected gay male flight attendant. Initially, however,"
"realized that the term GRID was misleading and the term AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982. By September 1982 the CDC started referring to the disease as AIDS. After the Centers for Disease Control declared the new disease an epidemic, Gay Men's Health Crisis was created in 1982 when 80 men gathered in New York gay activist Larry Kramer's apartment to discuss the issue and to raise money for research. The founders were Nathan Fain, Larry Kramer, Lawrence D. Mass, Paul Popham, Paul Rapoport and Edmund White. At the time it was the largest volunteer AIDS organization"
"people who have working immune systems. The late symptoms of the infection are referred to as AIDS. This stage is often complicated by an infection of the lung known as pneumocystis pneumonia, severe weight loss, a type of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma, or other AIDS-defining conditions. Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. AIDS was first recognized by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1981 and its cause—HIV infection—was identified in the early part of the decade. Since its discovery, AIDS has caused an"
"cause AIDS which is an acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening infections. Two-thirds of the worlds HIV population is located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since the epidemic started more than 15 million Africans have died by complications with HIV/AIDS. People apart of religious sub-groups of Sub-Saharan Africa and those who actively and frequently participate in religious activities are more likely to be at a lower risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. On the opposite end, there are many beliefs that an infected male can be cured of the"
"A 2017 example of a full word acrostic poem using the first word of every line, entitled ""For 2/14"": In the video game Zork the first letters of sentences in a prayer spelled ""Odysseus"" which was a possible solution to a cyclops encounter in another room. Acrostics can be more complex than just by making words from initials. A double acrostic, for example, may have words at the beginning and end of its lines, as this example, on the name of Stroud, by Paul Hansford - The first letters make up the acrostich and the last letters the telestich; in"
"of males with AIDS. In 1984 Scientists identified the virus that causes AIDS, which was first named after the T-cells affected by the strain and is now called HIV or human immunodeficiency virus. Afterwards, A Canadian flight attendant, dubbed ""Patient Zero,"" dies of AIDS-related complications. His sexual connection to several of the first victims of HIV is erroneously reported that he is responsible for introducing the virus into North America. By this time there were 8,000 confirmed cases in the U.S., resulting in an alarming 3,500 deaths. On September 17,1985 President Ronald Reagan for the first time mentions AIDS and"
"called into question. Several sources reported that the increase in American media coverage was based on a hoax and on faulty Internet research. The name derives from Genkem, a brand of glues which had ""become the generic name for all the glues used by glue-sniffing children"" in South Africa, where the drug originated and is most popular on the African continent today. In the book ""Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis"" by Emma Guest, the making of jenkem is described: ""fermented human sewage, scraped from pipes and stored in plastic bags for a week or so, until it gives off"
"renamed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The first drug used to treat HIV was called AZT which was later known as zidovudine. It was made by Burroughs Wellcome. The clinical trials of the drug were conducted at several VA hospitals, including those in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive drug ever made, at $10,000 for a year of treatment. The early history of the AIDS epidemic in New York City began with early rumors in 1981 of a ""gay plague."" Because AIDS first emerged among populations"
"shortened form, such as words with the middle omitted (for example, ""Rd"" for ""road"" or ""Dr"" for ""Doctor""), an acronym is a word formed from the first letter or first few letters of each word in a phrase (such as ""sonar"", created from ""sound navigation and ranging""). Attestations for """" in German are known from 1921, and for ""acronym"" in English from 1940. Although the word ""acronym"" is often used to refer to any abbreviation formed from initial letters, some dictionaries and usage commentators define ""acronym"" to mean an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word, in contrast to an"
"""A Bear's Life"" magazine. The papers of Mass and Kantrowitz are designated for deposit with the New York Public Library. Lawrence D. Mass Lawrence D. Mass, M.D. (born June 11, 1946) is an American physician and writer. A co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, he wrote the first press reports on the epidemic that later became known as AIDS. He is the author of numerous publications on HIV, hepatitis C, STDs, gay health, psychiatry and sex research, and on music, opera, and culture. He is also the author/editor of four books/collections. In 2009 he was in the first group of"
"by political discussion. In 1982, the first news of AIDS reached Switzerland. The first names given to it were ""gay cancer"", ""gay disease"", and ""gay-related immune deficiency"" (GRID). No-one knew at the time what caused AIDS, or how the infection spread. The advent of AIDS changed the movement of the mid-eighties completely. Many of the founders died, and LGBT people were stigmatised, leading to CSDs and gay rights demonstrations becoming sporadic rather than annual. To meet this challenge, the ""Schwulen Medizinmänner"" (Gay Medicine Men) group was founded in 1984 (renamed Medi Gay in 1997), and led the first information sessions"
"' (""a car"") comes from the word ""automobile"" via the Danish shortened version '. Sapir and Zuckermann (2008) demonstrate how Icelandic ""camouflages"" many English words by means of phonosemantic matching. For example, the Icelandic-looking word ', meaning ""AIDS"", is a phonosemantic match of the English acronym ""AIDS"", using the existing Icelandic verb ' (""to destroy"") and the Icelandic nominal suffix '. Similarly, the Icelandic word ' (""technology"", ""technique"") derives from ' (""tool"") combined with the nominal suffix ', but is a phonosemantic match of the Danish (or international) ' with the same meaning. This neologism was coined in 1912 by"
"The EU-wide ‘Joint Action on Improving Quality in HIV Prevention’, is seeking to increase the effectiveness of HIV prevention in Europe by using practical quality assurance (QA) and quality improvement (QI) tools. The Centers for Disease Control was the first organization to recognize the pandemic which came to be called AIDS. Their announcement came on June 5, 1981 when one of their journals published an article reporting five cases of pneumonia, caused by ""Pneumocystis jirovecii"", all in gay men living in Los Angeles. In May 1983, scientists isolated a retrovirus which was later called HIV from an AIDS patient in"
"the verb """"aider"""", 'to help or assist'. The founder chose to pluralize the word because it could be said that there are multiple types of help that the association can provide. One of their video projects is an AIDS awareness cartoon. The cartoon, produced by Goodby, Silverstein and Partners and presented in the style of 1920's era animation, features the comically exaggerated sexual adventures of a cat named ""Smutley"" and ends with the message, ""He has nine lives. You only have one. Protect yourself."" Posted on AIDES' YouTube channel on 16 March 2011, it has logged over 1.3 million views"
"of sexually transmitted infection with hepatitis, and immunization for Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B is recommended for all men who have sex with men. Safer sex is currently the only means of prevention for the Hepatitis C. The first name proposed for what is now known as AIDS was ""gay-related immune deficiency"", or ""GRID"". This name was proposed in 1982, after public health scientists noticed clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and ""Pneumocystis"" pneumonia among gay males in California and New York City. Men who have sex with men are more likely to acquire HIV in the modern West, Japan, India, and"
"History of HIV/AIDS AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the global pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain – HIV-1 subgroup M – in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the 1920s. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent, is more easily transmitted and is the cause of the vast majority of HIV infections globally. The"
"Lawrence D. Mass Lawrence D. Mass, M.D. (born June 11, 1946) is an American physician and writer. A co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, he wrote the first press reports on the epidemic that later became known as AIDS. He is the author of numerous publications on HIV, hepatitis C, STDs, gay health, psychiatry and sex research, and on music, opera, and culture. He is also the author/editor of four books/collections. In 2009 he was in the first group of physicians to be designated as diplomates of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Since 1979, he has lived and worked"
"""W"" in initialisms to avoid confusion with ""U"", for example ""UBTWMTTQVN"" or ""UBTƯMTTQVN"" for ""Ủy ban Trung ương Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam"" (Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front). Initialisms are purely a written convenience, being pronounced the same way as their expansions. As the names of many Vietnamese letters are disyllabic, it would be less convenient to pronounce an initialism by its individual letters. Acronyms pronounced as words are rare in Vietnamese, occurring when an acronym itself is borrowed from another language. Examples include ' (), a respelling of the French acronym ""SIDA"" (AIDS); ' (), a"
"carinii pneumonia (PCP), from five healthy, gay men in Los Angeles. This edition would later become ""MMWR's"" first official reporting of the AIDS epidemic in North America. By year-end, an cumulative total of 270 reported cases of severe immune deficiency was founded amid gay men, 121 out of the 270 reported cases had died. On September 24 in 1982, CDC started to use the term “AIDS” (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) for the first time, and released the first case definition of AIDS: “a disease at least moderately predictive of a defect in cell-mediated immunity, occurring in a person with no"