This article concludes that HIVers "live dramatically longer now,"
thanks to "antiviral cocktail drugs and early intervention."

Yes, HIVers do appear to be living longer now, but is that really
thanks to HIV wonder-drugs?  Few HIVers take the deadly concoctions as
and when they should, and many sell them on for profit.

Has early intervention led to HIVers living longer?  Probably not. HIV
enablers continue to promote mass testing, citing that a large number
of people don't know they have the killer virus until it's too late.

Quite why today's HIVers live longer than those diagnosed with the
(antibody) condition in the early 1980s is a bit of a mystery.

<http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090610/NEWS01/906100302/1006/news01/Drugs+help
ing+HIV+patients+live+longer>:

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AIDS is not the death sentence it was in the 1980s. And that's the
inherent difficulty advocates face in educating a fatigued public on
HIV/AIDS.

Antiviral cocktail drugs and early intervention today mean those
infected with HIV/AIDS can live 20, 30 and 40 years or more with the
disease.

That wasn't the case in the early 1980s, when young gay men
inexplicably began contracting opportunistic infections and cancers.
An AIDS diagnosis then almost certainly meant a speedy death. Pictures
of gay men wasting away became the poster child of the disease, and
fear.

“People live dramatically longer now,” said David Brinkman, executive
director of the Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs.

“There's been a decrease in the stigma within the gay community
because they have lived through the epidemic together. It has become
more normalized and because of the education with HIV there is also
the decrease of the fear of it.”

Each year in California — which has one of the highest infection rates
in the U.S. with more than 100,000 people living with HIV/AIDS — an
estimated 5,000 to 7,000 people contract the disease.

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