AIDS Is A Killer As we all know AIDS is a killer. AIDS is short for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. AIDS can be contracted either through sexual intercourse, by blood transfusion, or an exchange of bodily fluids from an infected person to a non-infected person. What many people do not quite understand is that AIDS' main course of action is to target the human immune system. AIDS does not directly make you sick or ill, but it weakens and eventually destroys the immune system so that a person easily contracts other diseases and viruses. People with AIDS have been known to die of a common cold. When a person is exposed to AIDS several t