(BrE) (also AIDS AmE, BrE) noun
[U] the abbreviation for 'Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome' (an illness which attacks the body's ability to resist infection and which usually causes death):
Aids research / education / victims * He developed full-blown Aids five years after contracting HIV.
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