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In reply to the discussion: I'm HIV+ 19 years and healthy. I've participated in numerous HIV drug trials. [View all]MuseRider
(34,095 posts)and thank you for your participation. My brother died of HIV in 2002. I am so happy this has become something that can be handled. There was nothing for him at the point he was with the disease and it was horrible. We tried everything that we could and I sat by him and watched him wither away. I am happy about all medical advances but the advance to the care of HIV was way too long in coming, the neglect by our government was killing people and they did not care. My brother died slowly and we were both in pain because of it and there are thousands of people just like me and my brother.
Thank you for your work to help and I am so grateful that the trauma of HIV is better than it was. I kind of kept myself away from learning about it after all that.
Vaccines are good almost all the time. Science is good. To think that HIV is no longer the horror that it was gives me great peace, I just wish our government had not waited so long to get this far. I wish we could get everyone to take the Coronavirus vaccines.
If you know Dr. D please give him a grateful thanks from someone out here who has suffered the loss and helped others who suffered the loss of HIV. It gives me great peace to know that it is being handled now.