HIV is NOT a death sentence!

HIV is not death sentence

Before the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in the 1990s, an HIV diagnosis meant death within a few years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the United States, but thanks to better treatments, people with HIV are now living longer — and with a better quality of life — than ever before.
Today, a 20-year-old diagnosed with HIV can live well into his or her 70s with proper treatment. HIV is still serious; there is no effective cure or vaccine.

Not only has treatment improved, but the drugs themselves are coming with fewer side effects. This is important considering HIV patients take multiple drugs simultaneously and these drugs, after a few years, have to be alternated with other medications to keep the virus from developing a resistance. Less than 10 years ago it was common for HIV patients to run out of drug options. Today, with new developments, there is little reason the viral load cannot be managed — transitioning HIV from a fatal disease to a chronic condition when properly treated

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HIV does not discriminate like the humans it infects do

HIV is not a crime

HIV stigma must stop

HIV criminalization is pure discrimination