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by ekianjo 4856 days ago
My understanding is HIV is still more or less a death sentence, with the antiretroviral therapies being relatively effective to push back the final outcome. And there are issues not being discussed here, such as compliance issues with the treatments (adverse reactions and so on) that make patients drop the treatments. It's far from being perfect yet.
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carbocation 4856 days ago
It's more of a chronic disease than a death sentence. We all die, and if you push back the final outcome far enough, your odds of dying from something else outgun your odds of dying from HIV/AIDS.

For example, those with HAART-treated HIV infection who have been treated for four years or more tend to die from a non-AIDS-related cause rather than from an AIDS-related one. [1]

[1] = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20380565

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Mz 4856 days ago
None of us are getting out of here alive. Last I checked, we are all born under a sentence of death.
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