Yeah, that's what I mean. AIDs felt insurmountable as a disease when I was younger. You mean its an illness that just fucks up your immune system so bad almost everything can kill you?, but these days we have PREP and drugs that can push you into Untransmissable territory, which is a stunning achievement. It went from 'I don't know if there will ever be an answer' to 'the answer feels like it's just around the corner' in 27 years

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

In the years before PREP and just had the triple cocktail, I had a friend that worked in operating rooms doing liver transplants. She talked about the damage Hepatitis does to a liver (and how we simply have no way to live without a healthy liver besides transplant). She told me she'd much rather have HIV than Hepatitis.

And to your point, now we're even have PREP. So something that was seen as a growing pandemic level death sentence is now a manageable and affordable routine. This is the wonderful power of modern medicine.