HIV


Meaning of HIV in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ eɪtʃ aɪ vi: ]

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

HIV is a virus which reduces people’s resistance to illness and can cause AIDS. HIV is an abbreviation for ‘human immunodeficiency virus’.

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2.

If someone is HIV positive , they are infected with the HIV virus, and may develop AIDS. If someone is HIV negative , they are not infected with the virus.

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