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HIV-1

HIV-1 is the initialism of human immunodeficiency virus 1.

Meaning of human immunodeficiency virus 1

Noun

human immunodeficiency virus 1 (uncountable)

  1. A subtype of HIV, the most common and pathogenic strain of the virus, related to viruses found in chimpanzees and gorillas living in western Africa.

Questions about HIV-1

What is HIV-1 the initialism of?
HIV-1 is the initialism of human immunodeficiency virus 1.

Words near HIV-1 in the dictionary

  1. HIV positive
  2. HIV virus
  3. HIV viruses
  4. HIV+
  5. HIV-
  6. HIV-1
  7. HIV-2
  8. HIV-negative
  9. HIV-positive
  10. HIV/AIDS
  11. Hiva Oa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HIV-1 (page history and authors); human immunodeficiency virus 1 (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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