HIV positive
Infected with retrovirus
HIV positive describes someone who has tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus, which attacks the immune system and can lead to AIDS if untreated.
The term is clinical and neutral: She learned she was HIV positive in her twenties.
Often hyphenated as HIV-positive when used as an adjective before a noun: an HIV-positive patient.
Retrovirus causing AIDS
- AIDSImmune deficiency syndrome
- retrovirusRNA virus copying into DNA
- lentivirusLong-incubation retrovirus type
- RNA virusPathogen using ribonucleic acid
infection · pathogen · mutation · strain · antibody · antigen · immune system · T-cell
Drug blocking viral reproduction
- viral loadPathogen count in body
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
adherence · undetectable · regimen · prognosis · immunodeficiency · monitoring · suppression · transmission
Systematic development of mind
- preventionStopping something before occurring
- testingExamining to evaluate
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
outreach · safe sex · condom use · counseling · World AIDS Day · red ribbon · public health · harm reduction
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- ostracismBanishment from a group
misconception · ignorance · judgment · fear · isolation · exclusion · marginalization · disclosure
human immunodeficiency virus
Retrovirus causing AIDS
- AIDSImmune deficiency syndrome
- retrovirusRNA virus copying into DNA
- lentivirusLong-incubation retrovirus type
RNA virus · infection · pathogen · mutation · strain · antibody · antigen · immune system · T-cell · replication
antiretroviral
Drug blocking viral reproduction
- viral loadPathogen count in body
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- therapyCurative mental treatment
medication · adherence · undetectable · regimen · prognosis · immunodeficiency · monitoring · suppression · transmission · resistance
education
Systematic development of mind
- preventionStopping something before occurring
- testingExamining to evaluate
- advocacyPleading for a cause
campaign · outreach · safe sex · condom use · counseling · World AIDS Day · red ribbon · public health · harm reduction · PrEP
discrimination
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
ostracism · misconception · ignorance · judgment · fear · isolation · exclusion · marginalization · disclosure · stereotyping
- HIV/AIDSHIV, AIDS, AIDS crisis, AIDS quilt, antiretrovirals
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- Positivesplus, plus sign, good, yes, optimism
HIV positiveHIV negative
Without the virus
seronegative · HIV-negative · uninfected · non-reactive · negative
HIV positiveuninfected
Free from disease agents
disease-free · healthy · immunocompetent · clear · clean
positive, positively, positiveness, positivity, posit, position, positions, positioned, positioning