When I was 25, AIDS was just emerging, and we were more cautious. Young people today have never known a world without HIV, and don't protect themselves against it. Another concern is that young adults having unprotected sex assume that if they do contract HIV, all they have to do is take a pill to have it under control. It's not that easy, they don't understand that using the drug cocktails we have today requires the patient to take over 30 pills at very strict intervals. Their lives revolve around taking the drugs.
Science is in a race to stay ahead of the virus.
Right now medication can keep it in remission, but HIV replicates over a million times a day, and every time it replicates with medicine in the system, it can develop a resistance. We have 15 different drug cocktails, and even now some patients aren't responding. If someone contracts HIV from a person with a resistant virus, their virus is also resistant. Scientists are racing to discover new treatments and preserve the precarious balance between medicine and the disease. If they fail, we'll be right back where we started.