HIV positive
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In the late 1980s, while still working on TV sets, Neece learned he was HIV positive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
And when the CDC asked him to get retested, this time he was HIV positive.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025
Unlike his discomfort with being a Jew, Cohn's disconnect over his identity as a gay man wound up taking a literally deadly turn for him after he was diagnosed as HIV positive.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
If just one of those donors was HIV positive, then the virus could be passed on.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
Magic Johnson's admission that he had tested HIV positive was followed, less than two days later, by the "We still love you" T- shirts in Los Angeles.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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