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English
Etymology
Coined in 1981 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since the then newly-discovered disease seemed to affect mainly the "four H's": homosexuals, heroin users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians.
Noun
4H disease (uncountable)
- (dated) AIDS.
- 2022, Rinaldo F. Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella, Valeria Finucci, Rethinking Medical Humanities
- Dr. Peter Piot a Belgian physician noticed that among patients who came from Africa there were as many women as men suffering from the “4H disease.”