HIV-positive

Example Sentences

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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

Several of the Housewives said they have family members and friends who are HIV-positive and emphasized that the epidemic disproportionately impacts Black women.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Many of those lives were in South Africa as around 13% of the population are living with HIV, making it the country with the largest number of HIV-positive people in the world.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

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

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