It seems that no one dies of AIDS anymore.
I believe it’s because they usually say the cause of death is something like pneumonia, respiratory disease, heart failure, etc.
Actually, the pharmaceutical cocktails used to treat HIV have become quite effecacious. It has come to be treated as a chronic disorder, similar to NHL or CML.
Exactly. I know personally of several instances. Besides the PC aspects of it, it allows denial by surviving family members. Particularly in a case where the man had 5 kids and left his wife for another man, later dying of AIDS. But some of the kids still insist it was complications of pneumonia.