[fwdude]

The antiretroviral therapy doesn't work on all people depending on the strain of HIV, other underlying conditions, and the degree of continued participation in "the lifestyle." In fact, about a fifth don't respond or the virus becomes resistant to the therapy.

Even many of those who do respond effectively are ravaged by the side effect of the drugs, which themselves shorten life, and the side effect and their severity increase with age.

No one should buy the propaganda that "HIV isn't a death sentence anymore." Sodomite activists HAVE to soft-pedal the disease that they own for public relations reasons.

[BobL]

Thanks. I’ve followed this disease for decades and remember the early 90s in particular. Back then, people were dying young, usually in their 40s, in very big numbers. Then the drugs came and the death rates went way down. I’ve read a bit on the drug therapy too, and it is not fun, at all, but it does, often, keep them alive.

In this guy’s case, it sounds like he was having trouble staying on the drugs, which isn’t good - and he paid the price.