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
We do not know if any of the children were HIV-positive but this practice creates a clear risk of viral transmission.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
Wilson’s doctor told him that he was HIV-positive, had six months to live and that he should get his affairs in order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
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
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
