HIV positive

Or HIV-pos·i·tive

[eych-ahy-vee-poz-i-tiv]

adjective

1. (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.

Example Sentences

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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Related Words

• acquired immune deficiency syndrome 
• sexually transmitted disease 
• virus