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Meaning HIV meaning

What does HIV mean?

HIV

infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (= human immunodeficiency virus) the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells

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Simple sentences

Tom just found out today that he is HIV positive.
The discovery of inadequate infection control protocols in several dental clinics has given rise to fears that patients may have been infected with HIV or hepatitis.
He got tested for HIV.
Tom has tested positive for HIV.
Some persons appear to be resistant to HIV infection.

Movie subtitles

Let me know if I need an HIV test, won't you?
I'm HIV-negative. Just so you know.
I had a blood test, and it turns out I'm HIV positive.
HIV-virus can only be transmitted by the exchange of bodily fluids.
You're right. There is a section on HIV-related discrimination.
Jenny, you've tested positive for the HIV virus.
But when they did the autopsy, there was no hiv.
It's an unusual condition and it's sometimes seen in hiv.
To be safe you should be tested for hiv.
We'll check you in, do an HIV test and treat your pneumonia.
HIV-positive kid with a busted tooth in one.
Isn't the chance of getting HIV from a needle-stick 1 in 100?
Is okay with his HIV? - It's fine.
Since you had unprotected sex, we'll test for gonorrhea, chlamydia and HIV.
I saw you fight in the Vel d'Hiv about a year ago. the night you knocked out that big Senegalese.
Come on, brother. You wasn't there long enough to catch the HIV.
I was directly but unknowingly involved in a globally catastrophic project, an hiv derivative known as Red Ribbon.
HIV binds to which receptor on the host lymphocyte?
If you sign up for the HIV test, they say they'll get you into the programme sooner.
I ain't taking no damn HIV test.
Your name will be placed on an HIV-tested waiting list.
See, the only way to get on is if you're HIV infected.
I took an HIV test this morning at the New Centre Clinic.
You've got to be HIV positive to get on.
Maybe technology is better now but you still can't cure cancer or HIV.
I mean HIV.
Because. recently. I had a blood test, and it turns out I'm HIV positive.
The HIV-AIDS character and I live in the building.
It was tested and I'm afraid you're HIV positive.
The observed object is a bloodsucking killer, who couldn't forgive the agency or the persons in charge of the sales corporation, which sold HIV-infected blood products, and killed both of them.
My wife couldn't stand those creatures who didn't destroy HIV-infected blood products, but were happy to ship them to the market place.
Says his name is Monty and that he's hiv positive.
His blood results were hiv positive.
No, hiv positive means antibodies are in his blood. The symptoms are called aids.
Mr Lanz found out in hospital he's hiv positive. And probably got infected in your group.
I came to tell you Mr Lanz is not hiv positive.
He's HIV-negative but look at his T cell count.
That's where a lot of the HIV risk lies.

News and current affairs

Each year, ten million people die from infectious diseases like malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis, along with pneumonia and diarrhea.
This has boosted resources to help people suffering from malaria, HIV, malnutrition, and diarrhea.
And there would be money left over to help develop an HIV vaccine, deliver drugs to treat heart attacks, provide a Hepatitis B vaccine to the developing world, and prevent 31 million children from starving each year.
Who decides which child will get the HIV resistance gene and who will be born susceptible to AIDS?
And some women's rights advocates have supported laws that criminalize transmitting HIV, arguing that these laws would punish men who concealed their HIV-positive status from their sexual partners, including their wives and girlfriends.
Criminal laws targeting all HIV carriers, however, are counter-productive and inherently unjust.
Gender bias against women permeates throughout Africa, and women are usually blamed for bringing HIV into a relationship.
Laws criminalizing the transmission of HIV undermine public health because they deter people who are HIV-positive and those at risk of acquiring the virus from seeking testing, counseling, and treatment.
Basic precautionary options such as HIV testing, male and female condoms, and sterile syringes for drug injection remain out of reach for the vast majority of those who need them.
When the Global Fund was created a decade ago, HIV incidence was rising around the world, and the drugs used to treat the virus were still prohibitively expensive.
When an HIV-positive mother receives antenatal treatment so that her child can be born HIV-free, we change the future.
Each of those splendid performers is living with HIV.
As many as seven million Africans who should be getting treatment for HIV are not.
In Washington recently, the United Nations rolled out an action plan that should dramatically accelerate progress on maternal and child health, including HIV.
The world could fight back with general health services in at-need areas along with more focused efforts to combat HIV and malaria.
In some jurisdictions, prosecutors can bring charges against pregnant women who are HIV-positive for potentially exposing the virus to their unborn children.
There are, to be sure, rare and dramatic cases in which a person with HIV infects another with the specific intention of inflicting harm.
It is a reality that men infected with HIV or AIDS in some parts of Africa have even raped girls believing that sex with virgins is a cure.
In Zimbabwe, for example, a woman was recently sentenced for exposing her lover to HIV even though she did not infect him.
This skews the outcomes of legal cases because the lack of testing of men makes it nearly impossible for a woman infected with HIV to establish before a court of law that her male sex partner infected her.
In Ukraine, human rights lawyers report the troubling case of a woman who was convicted for transmitting HIV to her husband even though he had used a condom, and despite the fact that he asked for the charges to be withdrawn.
Such laws also transform HIV victims into scapegoats for a societal problem for which the governments and broader societies are failing to undertake effective, and sometimes politically or culturally risky, steps that can defeat the disease.