How to Use HIV in a Sentence
HIV
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It can't be given to babies with immune issues, such as HIV.
—Melody Schreiber, NPR, 2 May 2024
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Adherence is often a problem with drugs that block HIV infection.
—Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 29 July 2024
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Pregnancy can affect health conditions such as sickle cell disease, HIV, and heart disease.
—Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 30 July 2024
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Here are the most important things to know about these free HIV self-tests.
—Katie Camero, SELF, 27 June 2024
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That is nothing like what the [HIV] activists were doing.
—Andrea Kane, CNN, 18 June 2024
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The list of drugs that the state plans to import include treatments for HIV, mental health, and cancer.
—John Wilkerson, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024
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Black residents were about three times as likely to die from HIV in 1995.
—Janice Kai Chen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
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The case’s impact could stretch well beyond the HIV battleground.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
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Mercury sang with Queen for about two decades and died in 1991 from complications from HIV.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2023
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The infection can also raise the risk of HIV transmission.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
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Fauci appears as pessimistic as he’s ever been on the prospect for an HIV vaccine.
—Jason Mast, STAT, 16 June 2024
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The findings are similar to those in studies conducted in adults living with HIV.
—Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 5 July 2023
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Moore draws a lesson from the eventual defeat of HIV denialists.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
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Surprisingly, the Everard reopened after the fire and stayed open until the city shuttered it in 1986 as part of a referendum to stem the spread of HIV.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
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In some cases, there were unwanted pregnancies and the transmission of HIV.
—Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
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According to the foundation, the district houses the most HIV cases per capita which is nearly three times the national rate.
—Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
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No-cost children’s dental screening and HIV and hepatitis C tests will also be available.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
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The county launched a needle exchange, providing supplies to reduce needle sharing and the risk of HIV and hepatitis C.
—Geoff Mulvihill and Carla K. Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
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Fauci helped spearhead the development of effective drugs to treat HIV.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
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Once in low-Earth orbit, its mini-lab autonomously grew crystals of the common HIV treatment drug ritonavir.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
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Worldwide there are about 1.3 million new HIV infections every year, with women and girls accounting for 44 percent of them.
—Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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Researchers are setting the gene-editing tool against cancer, HIV, and other genetic diseases.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
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Less frequently, it is found in younger people with suppressed immune systems, like transplant patients, and patients with HIV.
—Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
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In women, injecting drugs contributed to 19% of HIV cases.
—The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2024
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Children who have had organ transplants, those who have HIV or kids who are being treated for cancer or autoimmune diseases could be among those who cannot get a vaccine.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
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In the film, which is based on true events, punk rock bandmates purposefully inject themselves with HIV to live at an idyllic government-run treatment center.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
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Every dime that's been sent to Israel… is other programming that's not being funded, including HIV.
—Sally Tamarkin, Them, 28 June 2024
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The adult chimp was born into captivity at a lab specializing in HIV and hepatitis research and was torn away from her mother shortly after birth.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
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In two trials, the injection appeared to be more effective at thwarting HIV than Truvada and its generic equivalents were.
—Apoorva Mandavilli, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
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Convicts, up to 20 percent of whom are HIV positive, agreed to join Wagner in return for reduced sentences and, when necessary, antiviral drugs.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
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