You've asked an awfully big set of questions. Treatments for HIV have been clearly associated with prolonged survival. Drug discovery has been a multi-billion dollar, multinational investigation. Drugs have been discovered by many different teams of researchers.
Treatment do come with side effects, some mild and others more significant.
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