1Following infection with HIV but before the full development of AIDS.

1. 1.1 Before the recognition of AIDS as a disease.
   we are dealing with an era that was pre-AIDS

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I wonder if the power of pre-AIDS bacchanalia owes as much to its pre-commercial aspect as to its shame-free sexual licence - in the same way that the pre-corporate internet was deemed superior.
   • I wanted to talk about how frightening sexuality was - even pre-AIDS - for an adolescent on the cusp of sexuality.
   • ‘It was a pre-AIDS epic, set primarily in San Francisco,’ he says.
   • In pre-AIDS populations, mortality was largely bimodal: many deaths occurred among infants and young children, and most of the remainder among the elderly.
   • Since I came out pre-AIDS, I have to look back to see who passed me the torch.