[pavlov]

I grew up in the 1990s with an overwhelming fear of HIV as a teenager. It still feels incredible that the virus is now undetectable and non-transmissible with medication that’s not much of a burden in one’s daily life. A cure for AIDS was much closer than anyone imagined in 1993.

When everything seems dark and hopeless, this is one of the examples that always lifts my spirits. Humankind can achieve incredible things together.

[Gibbon1]

While looking for something else on San Francisco's heath departments website I found the following two things.

In San Francisco

Deaths from AIDs dropped 70% from 1996 to 1997. That's in one year it went from a relentless death sentence to manageable chronic.

While almost everyone that got HIV in the mid 80's are dead most people that got HIV in the mid 90's are still here.

If that's not winning it's close.

[KennyBlanken]

10,000 people a year die of AIDS in the US. Not even remotely close to "winning."

I suspect a large portion of those deaths are due to poor sexual education thanks to christofascists, and people who don't get tested regularly because of poor access to family planning and reproductive health, again thanks to christofascists. All because Magical Sky God Said Abortion Bad.

That and people who lose their healthcare and can't afford the meds because this country is the only developed nation in the world which does not treat healthcare like a universal human right, because corporations want to keep using health coverage to keep workers from switching jobs more freely, because they don't want a free labor market.

[rjzzleep]

Isn’t that like a third of gun deaths in the USA? Personally for me this idea of trust that it’s undetectable and therefore non jtransmissible is not a risk I would recommend anyone to take, but at the same time we have to put things into relation no?

[mensetmanusman]

It’s mostly through drug use, poverty, etc.