What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.
I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.
You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
Precaution is better than cure.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
The remedy is worse than the disease.