I merely suggest we look at where we are and the options we have, in historical perspective. I have been fortunate to not personally experience the ravages that AIDS can inflict. But I have seen it numerous times in friends and loved ones. I have visited multiple hospitals and multiple rooms at a hospital to look in on friends who were suffering. I remember when HIV care was focused almost exclusively on the OIs, not on HIV itself.
Today really is better than the past.
Today there is a much deeper understanding of HIV and how it works. But there is still much that is not understood about HIV, about our immune systems, about the intricacies of the human body, even about the effects of drugs on the entire body. Medicine has always been part art and part science. What is also true today is the importance of your participation in your own healthcare. You must decide what treatments to try.