Aid (disambiguation) explained

Aid is the voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

Aid or AID may also refer to:

Assistance and funding

• Development aid, financial aid to support the development of developing countries
• Humanitarian aid, material and logistic assistance to people who need help
• Welfare spending, social aid to poor people
• First aid, assistance given to a person suffering a sudden illness or injury
• Charity (practice), voluntary giving of aid and to those in need

People

• Aid (rapper) (born 1990), stagename of Aida Alonso Iglesias, a Spanish rap singer
• George Charles Aid (1872–1938), American painter
• Matthew Aid (1958–2018), American military historian and author

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Activation-induced cytidine deaminase, an enzyme
• Amputee identity disorder, now more commonly known as "body integrity identity disorder", a controversial psychological and neurological mental disorder
• Artificial insemination by donor, a type of human artificial insemination
• Autoimmune disease, a disorder with an overactive immune response of the body

Other uses in science and technology

• Algebraic interpretive dialogue, an implementation of JOSS II for the PDP-10
• Automatic interaction detection, a precursor to, and component of chi-square automatic interaction detection
• Application identifier, in the EMV payment card chip standard

Other uses

• Aid (Würm), a river in Germany
• Aid, Missouri, a community in the US
• Americans for Informed Democracy, an American non-profit organization
• Association for India's Development, an American/Indian non-profit organization

See also

• • Feudal aid, feudal taxation
• AIDS, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• USAID, United States Agency for International Development
• Aide (disambiguation)
• AIDS (disambiguation)
• Assistance (disambiguation)
• Eid (disambiguation)
• Help (disambiguation)