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serodiscordant
[ seer-oh-dis-kawr-dnt ]
adjective
- pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
Example Sentences
Known as serodiscordant couples, they account for 44% of new HIV infections in the country.
The drive to have children is still very strong - in one recent study involving serodiscordant couples 16% of the women became pregnant.
As we began to explore options, Kasiah and I were frustrated at the lack of family-planning data or information out there for serodiscordant couples like us, in which one partner is HIV-positive and the other is negative.
Mixed HIV status, or serodiscordant, couples looking to start a family have a menu of options in addition to the traditional routes of adoption, surrogates, and egg or sperm donors.
In a prospective study of 2521 African HIV-1 serodiscordant couples, we assessed genital HIV-1 RNA quantity and HIV-1 transmission risk.
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