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by cbg0 2763 days ago
Compared to a few decades ago, you can live a much longer life thanks to the medication available nowadays.
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wiz21c 2763 days ago
well, then it means one understands "treatable" as "there's a treatmen for", it's different thatn "there's a cure for"...
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dfxm12 2763 days ago
According to the OED[0], "treatable" is a boolean that means "able to be cured". "Very" is superfluous here - something is able to be cured or not, I'm not sure what room there is for degree. As far as I know, there is no cure for HIV (but I'd be happy to learn otherwise).

So unless "very treatable" is medical jargon with a different meaning from the how the laity use it, calling HIV "very treatable" does seem to be a stretch.

0 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/treatable

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dajohnson89 2763 days ago
In the medical world, treatable is very different from curable.

Chlamydia is a curable bacteria infection (antibiotics). There is no known cure for HIV.

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