ASO

plural ASOs

1. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of anti-streptolysin O.

   Synonyms: ASLO

2. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of antisense oligonucleotide.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of app store optimization.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of AIDS service organization.

   To sensitize their staffs, ASOs can offer in-service trainings about incest and its impact on unsafe sex and other high-risk behavior, both to professionals and to peer-educators.

   1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 10

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   The PEOPLE WITH AIDS who are the most important and needy clients of ASOs get shortchanged when education, "program development," and other such Volvo-era machinations suck up needed funding and energy.

   1989 December 17, Steve Rose, “Over-Emphasis On Safer Sex Ed Among Gay White Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 4

plural Asos

1. A surname from Japanese.