HIV-positive
Example Sentences
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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
The girl's mother is said to have hidden her HIV-positive status during pregnancy and travelled to Spain to give birth in 2017.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
"By then I already assumed that I was HIV-positive, and I told the nurse this."
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
“There were many, many people who had been treated by HIV-positive health care workers, and you weren’t seeing infections, so this was unnecessary,” Barr said.
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
