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OCR: Alphabet AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) (See also BISEXUALITY; CONTRACEPTIVE FOAMS, CREAMS, AND GELS; HERPES; HOMOPHO- BIA; SAFER SEX) The magnitude of human suffering and death caused by AIDS has made it the plague of the last decades of the twentieth century. By the beginning of 1992 the two known AIDS viruses had infected more than an estimated 13 million individuals worldwide: 1 to 1.5 million in the United States, 10 million in Africa, and 2 million in Asia, and the viruses are still spreading. At present there is no vaccine or cure for AIDS. AIDS is caused by one of two human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV). These viruses, identified by the abbrevia- tions HIV-1 and HIV-2, cause disease infecting and destroying blood cells called lymphocytes that protect the CATEGORY ALPHABET Office