With the proper treatment, HIV has a negligible impact on your quality of life and no statistically significant impact on your life expectancy. Modern antiretroviral drugs have minimal side-effects and most patients experience no long-term side-effects whatsoever.

Highly active antiretroviral treatment is a goddamned miracle. One pill a day turns a death sentence into a complete non-issue. I can't help but question the mental health of someone who would reject such an astonishingly good treatment in favour of being a human guinea pig.

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