serostatus

Examples

• All

• For HIV-positive women, costs for disclosing their serostatus are potentially substantial.

  Academic text (2008)

• One strategy for women living with HIV to reduce emotional burdens is to disclose their serostatus and access necessary social support.

  Academic text (2008)

• Messages for a serostatus approach to HIV/AIDS prevention and care in Africa

  Academic text (2003)

• The proposal to provide nevirapine to women of unknown serostatus is not radical.

  Academic text (2003)

• By the late 1990s, it had been reported that HIV serostatus was associated with the use of liquid opiates.

  Academic text (2011)

• For the most part, these laws require PLWH to disclose their positive serostatus to prospective sexual partners.

  Academic text (2012)

• Criminalizing nondisclosure of HIV serostatus does not reduce sexual risk behavior.

  Academic text (2012)

• Although our focus group and in-depth interviews revealed that disclosing HIV serostatus to mothers often had positive consequences, some participants experienced negative consequences.

  Academic text (2010)

• The decision to disclose one’s HIV serostatus is often strewn with a myriad of emotional and cognitive dilemmas.

  Academic text (2008)

• In these settings, if access to nevirapine is contingent upon a confirmed serodiagnosis, infants of women who do not learn their HIV-1 serostatus are denied access to potentially lifesaving prophylaxis.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

S

seropositivity

vsserostatus

• Specialized

1 8.3

Having certain antibodies in the blood that show you were exposed to or infected by a disease

is the overall status that indicates either presence or absence of antibodies

S

seronegativity

vsserostatus

• Specialized

9.8

A state with no antibodies to a disease in the blood that shows no past infection

is the overall status that indicates either presence or absence of antibodies

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology