所谓“爱滋病”,医学上叫做“获得性(或后天性)免疫缺陷综合症”(Acquired immune deficiency syndrcme),其英文缩写为AIDS,故音译为“爱滋病”。爱滋病最初是由在海地(加勒比海上的一个岛国)男妓院冶游的美国同性恋者罹患后传入美国的,1979年首先在美国报道。这类患者大都集中于纽约、旧金山、洛杉矶、迈阿密等大城市的同性恋者中,故开始时被称为“同性恋病”,其中以白人青壮年(20—50岁)为多,也有黑人和其它有色人种。 The so-called “AIDS”, medically called “acquired (or acquired) immunodeficiency syndrome” (Acquired immune deficiency syndrcme), the acronym for AIDS, so the transliteration of “AIDS.” AIDS was first introduced to the United States after suffering from an American gay who was traveling in a brothel in Haiti (an island in the Caribbean), first reported in the United States in 1979. Most of these patients are concentrated in homosexuals in major cities such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami and were initially described as “gay and lesbian”, with white young adults (20-50 years old) as well as blacks and others Colored people.