Coelho's right. HIV, at least for people in developed countries who are diagnosed in time, is not an automatic death sentence by any means any more. It's a treatable condition. A chronic one, yes, and it's going to be with you for the rest of your life. But the new drugs make it possible now for people to suppress the viral "expansion" and postpone it from blasting through your immune system to the point that you have full-blown AIDS, often for many decades.

This doesn't mean everyone ought not to protect against it. They should. But just because someone gets HIV these days, it isn't automatically a death sentence like it was for most people 20 years ago. We need to do a lot more to treat and educate people in Africa and some parts of Asia, who are not as lucky as we are in North American and Europe in receiving early diagnoses and treatment. Someday I hope every person in the world will routinely get tested and, if necessary, treated in a way that'll help them have long, relatively healthy lives.