How to Use AIDS in a Sentence

AIDS

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  • The artist had spent the ’80s losing friends and lovers to the ravages of AIDS.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Part of her work was prayer work, and that carried her through the AIDS crisis.
    — Wren Sanders, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Cohn, who was a closeted gay man, died from AIDS in 1986.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • The star was just 59 at the time, and had been diagnosed with AIDS a year earlier.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
  • One of her friends died from AIDS and another from a drug overdose.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • His death boosted public awareness of the disease and raised millions of dollars for AIDS research.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • In response to the AIDS epidemic, members were forbidden to even eat in restaurants.
    — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • His first partner died of AIDS, provoking the first in a series of withering bouts of depression.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • But the reservoir of respect for her led even critics of her views on preventing AIDS to regard her with affection.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Those became game-changers in the fight against AIDS, credited with saving millions of lives worldwide.
    — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • In 2006, the clinics first addressed the high mortality rates of truckers during the AIDS epidemic.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
  • His lifelong causes are AIDS awareness, which has been driven partially to the loss of relatives from the disease and women’s rights.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There were, there were people dying of AIDS in my environment, in my atmosphere.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 27 June 2024
  • But the 25-minute segment became a watershed in public perceptions about AIDS.
    — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
  • The patient tested positive for AIDS and had recently received a transfusion from a blood bank.
    — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But by the late 1980s, they were blasted by tragedy and into obscurity thanks to socio-political unrest, AIDS and, least of all, disco.
    — Tracy Kawalik, SPIN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In the 1980s, the union was confronted with the AIDS crisis, which had a particularly harsh impact on the theatrical community.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Most were cancer treatment drugs, but others could have been used to treat AIDS, multiple sclerosis, arthritis and other diseases.
    — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Horrigan’s commitment, throughout the 1990s, to the video work emerging from the AIDS crisis showed how museums could engage with the most urgent issues affecting the lives of artists and their audiences.
    — Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Haring intentionally left the work unfinished as a commentary on the AIDS crisis.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Consistently, notable films and television series have returned to the onset of the AIDS crisis to great acclaim, and far removed from the paralyzing, overwhelming terror of the past.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 11 Jan. 2024
  • For select populations—homeless AIDS patients and homeless veterans—this has already to some extent been done.
    — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The police quickly closed the case, deeming it the suicide of a gay man amid the AIDS crisis, but his family had trouble believing that narrative, especially after the bodies of other gay men turned up at the bottoms of other cliffs.
    — The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Later, there were commercials for her fragrance line and pioneering philanthropy in AIDS research.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Sheppard was charged with lewd molestation, rape by instrumentation, first-degree rape, exposing others to AIDS and pattern of criminal offenses, court records show.
    — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Worldwide, poor sanitation kills more children annually than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
    — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Perhaps the most jarring is the cultural hostility some storytellers and artists are currently facing, something reminiscent of the festival’s earliest days amid the AIDS crisis.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023

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