HIV-positive
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Parents of children with thalassemia in India say they are devastated after life-saving blood transfusions left their children HIV-positive, confronting them with illness, social stigma, and uncertainty.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025
Sheen also reveals in the book that some folks wanted to expose his HIV-positive diagnosis before he went public with it in 2015, according to People.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
Among the television roles she was best known for was the recurring character of an HIV-positive nurse in the hospital drama Soul City.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025
All these decades later, despite medical and social progress, the epidemic is far from over, even in the United States, and stigma against HIV-positive people persists.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 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
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