GRID

Initially unnamed, the disease earns the term GRID gay-related immune deficiency in the press.

World AIDS Day: timeline of a worldwide pandemic (Photos) Melissa Bell 2010

By Christmas 1981, the new disease was dubbed GRID, Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease.

Laurie Garrett: AIDS at 30: The Real Story Laurie Garrett 2011

It started in the 1980s when the disease was termed GRID Gay Related Immune Deficiency; President Reagan refused to even say the word AIDS for four years and the epidemic decimated entire communities in this country all the while.

Kat Griffith: The Human Costs of HIV Stigma, And What You Can Do to Change the Story Kat Griffith 2011

It started in the 1980s when the disease was termed GRID Gay Related Immune Deficiency; President Reagan refused to even say the word AIDS for four years and the epidemic decimated entire communities in this country all the while.

Kat Griffith: The Human Costs of HIV Stigma, And What You Can Do to Change the Story Kat Griffith 2011

It started in the 1980s when the disease was termed GRID Gay Related Immune Deficiency; President Reagan refused to even say the word AIDS for four years and the epidemic decimated entire communities in this country all the while.

Kat Griffith: The Human Costs of HIV Stigma, And What You Can Do to Change the Story Kat Griffith 2011

By Christmas 1981, the new disease was dubbed GRID, Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease.

Laurie Garrett: AIDS at 30: The Real Story Laurie Garrett 2011

It started in the 1980s when the disease was termed GRID Gay Related Immune Deficiency; President Reagan refused to even say the word AIDS for four years and the epidemic decimated entire communities in this country all the while.

Kat Griffith: The Human Costs of HIV Stigma, And What You Can Do to Change the Story Kat Griffith 2011

There are great examples of this principle in action across the country, from Hunts Point in the Bronx, where Sustainable South Bronx teaches local youth the skills of environmental remediation, to Hunters Point in San Francisco, where a non-profit called GRID Alternatives trains local residents to do residential solar power installations in their neighborhoods.

Clint Wilder: Green-Collar Dreams, Red-Ink Realities 2008

I also understand that a lot has changed since the disease was once called GRID gay-related immunodeficiency disease: AIDS doesn't deplete social circles anymore thanks to antiretrovirals; the face of the disease has become more inclusive over the years; and Big Pharma markets living with HIV as painless and as easy as popping a pill every day.

Kellee Terrell: Why Fear and HIV Prevention Shouldn't Mix Kellee Terrell 2011

I also understand that a lot has changed since the disease was once called GRID gay-related immunodeficiency disease: AIDS doesn't deplete social circles anymore thanks to antiretrovirals; the face of the disease has become more inclusive over the years; and Big Pharma markets living with HIV as painless and as easy as popping a pill every day.

Kellee Terrell: Why Fear and HIV Prevention Shouldn't Mix Kellee Terrell 2011