title: Aid (disambiguation)
text: # Aid (disambiguation)
  
  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, 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
  