HIV
Treatments
Because of recently developed anti-HIV medication, in many cases, people are now living longer with HIV than ever before. Indeed, in this country and others in the western world, even though infection rates have increased, death rates have fallen. This is primarily due to life-long courses of drug treatment that are available to control the virus. (They do not provide a cure.) If someone has HIV, by sticking to treatments, they may feel more well and be able to prevent life-threatening diseases and infections.
If you feel you may have been at risk of HIV, the sooner you get tested, the more options you have available to you in terms of treatment. We are lucky in this country to have access to such medical treatments. Lest we forget, the infection and mortality rates in the developing world are still increasing, and many countries do not have access to the same facilities as us.