It seems weird that this overrides the actual messaging from the groups themselves. NASA calls themselves NASA, not Nasa. English orthography is so removed from pronunciation that it seems quite arbitrary and useless to rework it for one specific case.

Also, it is irrelevant because this is the MIT reader press, not the BBC,and it is literally "AIDS" in the article title. BBC has their own standards. They don't set the standards for every article written in English.

Huh.

So when you wrote that comment, was TFA's URL a BBC link?

Newspaper writing styles can be strange. The New Yorker, for example, is probably the sole user of diaereses for commonly-known words.

I feel like it makes no sense to do this for AIDS seeing as it's already a word, with a different meaning