Sentence examples for hiv inflicts from inspiring English sources

HIV inflicts the most damage before you're even infected.

Although HIV attacks many different cells, it inflicts the most disorder on the CD4+ T-cells, the main target of CD4+ T-cells is to form the body's overall immune response to external infections.

Diseases are not always as hard to defeat as tuberculosis and HIV, even when the damage they inflict is devastating.

Across cultures, HIV stigma has repeatedly been shown not only to inflict hardship and suffering on people with HIV [ 21], but also to interfere with decisions to seek HIV counseling and testing [ 22, 23], as well as PMTCT [ 24– 28] and to limit HIV-positive individuals' willingness to disclose their infection to others [ 29– 32], which can lead to sexual risk.

Gordon's former partner was convicted of inflicting grievous bodily harm by unlawfully and maliciously infecting Gordon with HIV.

Traditional healers would attribute the presence of HIV symptoms to "genies" ("majini") or "bad spirits" ("mapepo") and villagers wishing to inflict pain on others would resort to witches ("wachawi") who would perform satanic rituals to attain this (often in the form of an AIDS-like disease).

Because to sell HIV prevention using fear (as opposed to using love and validation), does nothing but inflict more unnecessary trauma upon the same vulnerable and at-risk community that the NYC DOHMH claims it wants to protect.

"sorcerers exist and miracles are being performed whereby a person would become sick... a person who suffers from HIV takes a long time but for someone to whom the disease has been inflicted through sorcery it takes a short period" (FL16- mainstream church) However other leaders from the same denomination doubted - or did not believe at all - that witchcraft existed.

From being labelled as having a disorder to shouldering the burden of some of the highest rates of violence and HIV infection in the world, the perils of daily life for transgender people are multi-layered and can inflict substantial harm, experts and activists say.

Humans inflict it; the world inflicts it.

What she did do was inflict huge damage on a community that desperately needed support, and smashed down any possibility of supporting confused children or educating them about how to not catch HIV.