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HIV-2

HIV-2 is the initialism of human immunodeficiency virus 2.

Meaning of human immunodeficiency virus 2

Noun

human immunodeficiency virus 2 (uncountable)

  1. A subtype of HIV, not widely recognized outside of Africa, related to viruses found in the sooty mangabey.

Questions about HIV-2

What is HIV-2 the initialism of?
HIV-2 is the initialism of human immunodeficiency virus 2.

Words near HIV-2 in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HIV-2 (page history and authors); human immunodeficiency virus 2 (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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