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HIV-positive

[eych-ahy-vee-poz-i-tiv] / ˈeɪtʃ aɪˌviˈpɒz ɪ tɪv /
NOUN
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
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By 2021 the number of HIV-positive local children had risen to 1,500 – and even now, new infections are still occurring.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

By most accounts, the HIV drug lenacapavir is so effective in preventing infection and treating HIV-positive patients that it could revolutionize the fight against AIDS.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 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

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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