acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

ac⋅quire

1.	to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.

to gain for oneself through one's actions or efforts: to acquire learning. Whose idea was it to use this word to describe this virus? Does anyone think it was an innocuous choice? And putting all possible insinuatory political connotations aside, it doesn't really make sense looking at this kid, does it?