http://www.williamheyward.net/ Dr. William Heyward's Fight Against AIDS - AIDS is considered to be a pandemic, currently effecting over 38 million people around the world. In the early 1980's, scientists started recognizing that a disease was affecting, and killing, thousands of people in the United States. At first there was no name for it. The press started calling it the Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, or GRID disease, but research soon proved that one did not have to be gay to be affected by the disease. en-us