10 points for anyone that gets this- Do you know what AIDS was called in the 80's before it was called AIDS?

Answer 1

Gay Related Immune Deficiency

Answer 2

Band Aids!

Answer 3

Different groups gave it different names but often it was referred to by whatever disease the patient was currently exhibiting. Two of the most prevalent were KSOI (Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) and PCP (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia).

Once there was a realization that there was an underlying disease compromising these patients it was given several names including: GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency), AID (Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease), Gay Cancer and CAID (Community Aquired Immune Dysfunction).

Answer 4

"1982 History
The disease still did not have a name, with different groups referring to it in different ways. The CDC generally referred to it by reference to the diseases that were occurring, for example lymphadenopathy (swollen glands), although on some occasions they referred to it as KSOI, the name already given to the CDC task force.14, 15

In contrast some still linked the disease to its initial occurrence in gay men, with a letter in The Lancet calling it "gay compromise syndrome".16 Others called it GRID (gay-related immune deficiency), AID (acquired immunodeficiency disease), "gay cancer" or "community-acquired immune dysfunction"."


Excerpted from "The History of AIDS: 1981-1986" Link is full article

Answer 5

In the 80s, AIDS was originally called the "gay cancer."

Answer 6

before the 80's AIDs wasnt even noticed by any outside of Africa ,so it wasnt really called anything

Answer 7

It wasn't given a specific name. Scientifically it was thought to be some kind of rhetrovirus, but it didn't have a specific name. Read: "And the band Played on..." for more details.

Answer 8

For a while it was Gay Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Answer 9

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Answer 10

The HIV virus was called HTLV-III (or HTLV-3).