AIDS

Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Band-Aid

A quick and usually ineffective solution to a problem that only addresses the symptom and not the root cause. Refers to the trademark for a brand of adhesive bandages. Primarily heard in US. Lowering educational standards in schools may increase graduation rates, but it does little more than slap a Band-Aid on a much deeper problem.

aid and abet

To assist someone, usually in a mischievous or illegal activity. Gary was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the jewelry thief. I know other kids aided and abetted Paul in egging our house—he's just the only one who got caught.

See also: abet, aid, and

aid and abet someone

Cliché to help someone; to incite someone to do something, possibly something that is wrong. (Originally a legal phrase.) He was scolded for aiding and abetting the boys who were fighting.

See also: abet, aid, and

aid and abet

FORMAL

If someone aids and abets another person, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong. His wife was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for aiding and abetting him. Note: This expression is often used in legal contexts.

See also: abet, aid, and

aid and abet

help and encourage someone to do something wrong, especially to commit a crime.

Abet comes from an Old French term meaning ‘to encourage a hound to bite’.

1986 Frank Peretti This Present Darkness She strained to think of…any friend who would still aid and abet a fugitive from the law, without questions.

See also: abet, aid, and

References in periodicals archive ?

In July actor Rock Hudson announces he has AIDS, bringing mainstream public awareness to the disease; he dies on October 2.

I can!

For more stories on the 16th International AIDS Conference, please visit our Web site, www.

AIDS activists urge protection of women; religion's role in epidemic debated

In 1992, the year Edwin died, tennis great Arthur Ashe announced he had AIDS; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated 140,000 168,000 persons were living with AIDS in the United States (2); the International AIDS Society moved its 8th International Conference from Boston to Amsterdam in protest of US policy on HIV-infected travelers; and the Food and Drug Administration was some 3 years off approving the first protease inhibitor, saquinavir.

Weeds

In fact, even applied to the AIDS situation, it would be hard to see how anyone could equate the $10 billion asked for annually by the UN with begging to enter a lifeboat.

The African AIDS crisis and international indifference

AIDS has turned one in 10 Lavumisans into an orphan.

In Africa, a town unravels: AIDS is rapidly stealing the life from a village in Swaziland

Using condoms as a means of preventing AIDS can only lead to sexual promiscuity," says Archbishop Dominic Bulamatari of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who attended the conference.

Catholics fighting AIDS in Africa

XVI International AIDS Conference, August 13-18, 2006 in Toronto, Canada, http://www.

Conferences and meetings calendar, 2005

A medical anthropologist-demographer who has worked on the AIDS epidemic in 24 countries for the past 15 years, Hunter offers a brilliant examination of the AIDS pandemic--past, present and frightening future.

Facing up to HIV/AIDS: authors lift the veil on complex issues surrounding pandemic in Africa and black America

Millions of Africans with HIV and AIDS are leaving their disease untreated because they lack life and/or medical insurance.

Insuring hope: insurance for individuals with AIDS in Africa is hard to come by, but carriers are making changes to help the millions infected with the disease

A higher sensitivity to the palliative and end-of-life needs of patients with advanced AIDS has evolved at the Center.

Caring for patients with AIDS: an interview with John R. Brechtl, MD, FACP

In January 2001, Housing Works published a report stating that persons of color made up over 83 percent of new AIDS cases confirmed in 1999, according to the New York State Department of Health.

Dying for resources: AIDS activists in New York City analyzed the racial impact of the epidemic--and won an unprecedented $5 million from the city from communities of color

By interviewing nationally representative samples of adults in 1997 and 1999, researchers were able to estimate the prevalence of stigmatizing opinions and wrongly held beliefs about HIV and AIDS among the American public.

The numbers beat out a dirge: Twenty-two million people to date worldwide have died from AIDS.

AIDS Culprits

She will spend the rest of her life worrying that the virus would develop into life-threatening AIDS - that any cough, sneeze, rash or flu would, in fact, indicate AIDS and perhaps the beginning of the end of her life.