what is HIV positive?

Answer 1

HIV+ is the term given to people who have contracted the HIV virus (which can cause AIDS).

People who haven't contracted it are called HIV-

Answer 2

You have tested positive for the HIV virus that could and most likely will later develop into AIDS.

JAM- Where do you get your info? You are very wrong.

Answer 3

HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is the name given for a variety of disease manifestations caused by HIV infection.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., has compiled a list of all the infections and tumors that doctors use to define AIDS. For example, if a person with HIV develops tuberculosis, he or she is then said to have developed AIDS. The same is true for pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), cryptococcal meningitis and a CD4 (T-cell) count below 200. This list and the official definition of AIDS are simply standard ways of describing patients with various HIV-related illnesses. (The definition of AIDS is also used by some insurance companies and health programs to define who is disabled and who is not.) To simplify the matter even further, we can say that AIDS is the disease and HIV is the cause of the disease.

It is frightening to think of oneself as having AIDS. Since it usually takes several years to become ill (develop AIDS) after infection with HIV, most patients would rather think of themselves as being infected with a virus than having AIDS, a life-threatening illness. As an analogy, think of the new findings of genes that predispose a person to develop breast cancer. If a woman finds out that she has such a gene, she certainly does not yet have breast cancer. If you told her that she has breast cancer, she would likely correct you, saying, "I probably will develop breast cancer in the future, but for now, I only have the gene." Many patients would say, "I probably will develop AIDS in the future, but for now, I only have HIV." It seems a subtle difference to those who are not infected, but it is an important distinction.......

Answer 4

HIV is sexually transmitted disease.It is transmitted by injection of blood components,sexual contact (vaginal, anal and oral intrcourse), from infcted mother to the child. Most persons infected with HIV show no immediate sign of illness.

Answer 5

it shows a person who may later develop AIDS

Answer 6

you're postive for a sexual transmitted disease but is curable. unlike AIDS, it's always left untreated.