Now, comes a controversial treatment that could address the problem. But most people still don't know about it and can't get it. Healthweek's Pat Anson explains why. Nighttime in the Castro district - The heart of San Francisco s gay community. A neighborhood with one of the highest rates of H.I.V. infection in the country.
Safe sex is a way of life here for many couples.
But, as Mike Shaw and Ron Tripp learned, sometimes, even the best precautions, fail. We were having sex, and the condom broke. Ron is H.I.V. positive. We panicked, completely. Yeah, we did.