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.
Not staying on the drugs on a diligent, consistent schedule also allow the virus to mutate to a more drug-resistant form. Not a very cheering outlook for a “community” that prides itself on radical sexual liberty.
Despite dramatic increases in life expectancy in the decade since the introduction of combination therapy, Americans diagnosed with HIV are still dying an average of 21 years younger than their HIV-negative peers, report researchers from the Centers of Disease Prevention and Control in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. http://www.aidsmap.com/People-with-HIV-have-21-year-reduction-in-life-expectancy-in-US/page/1435924/
It's important to look at all of the information so as not to buy into an obfuscation campaign by the media/power elite.
21 years younger death than your non-HIV peers is still a death sentence.