HIV positive
or HIV-pos·i·tive
[eych-ahy-vee-poz-i-tiv]
- (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
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Over the course of their affair, the woman alleges that Pounding never mentioned that he was HIV-positive.
Today one of every 120 adults between 15 and 49 years of age worldwide is HIV-positive.
But Precious—a modern melodrama with a hugely sympathetic HIV-positive teen at its heart, was a hit with critics and audiences.
Davis, who was HIV-positive, died of a drug overdose in 1991.
The source says that the talk turned to a neighborhood doctor and word that Hernandez had been diagnosed as HIV-positive.