HIV-positive

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He told BBC Eye in an interview that he took "immediate" action after being notified of an HIV-positive case at THQ Taunsa, but he said the hospital was not the cause of the outbreak.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 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

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