HIV-positive

[eych-ahy-vee-poz-i-tiv] / ˈeɪtʃ aɪˌviˈpɒz ɪ tɪv /

NOUN

acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Synonyms

STRONGEST

AIDS

WEAK

SIDA acquired immunodeficiency syndrome immune failure

NOUN

AIDS

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acquired immune deficiency syndrome sexually transmitted disease virus

STRONG

HIV STD

Example Sentences

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He told Ciesielski that he’d gotten tested outside town, to avoid the stigma that came with being HIV positive.

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“They told me over the phone,” Shoemaker said: “You are HIV positive.”

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And when the CDC asked him to get retested, this time he was HIV positive.

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Barr had found out he was HIV positive in 1989.

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More than 40 percent of pregnant women my colleagues and I saw were HIV positive, and I cared for many patients who died of AIDS.

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