HIV-positive
Example Sentences
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Contending with stigma and misinformation has been a constant struggle for people who are HIV-positive, he said, a struggle that Zaldivar hopes to make more visible now than it has been in previous decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
As Robert Zaldivar stresses, the only way to protect L.A.’s Latino HIV-positive community is to support remaining HIV services to get tested or donate to local service organizations.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
Many HIV-positive sex workers in South Africa relied on private clinics funded by the US government's now-defunct aid agency, USAID, to get their prescriptions and treatments.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
"By then I already assumed that I was HIV-positive, and I told the nurse this."
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
The second way was the American quarantine in the early 1990s of HIV-positive Haitian refugees, who were detained at the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
