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by Fomite 4614 days ago
Honestly, at this point HAART treatments for HIV are giving folks a near natural lifespan, and the major threats to their health are becoming diseases of old age - cancer and the like. And the years they have are fully functional.

Compared to a chronic, wasting disease that will take years of opportunistic infections before you die, that's damned good.