Totally agree with what you’re saying about better treatment for HIV

I would also add there is better treatment for AIDS as well.

For example. One of the complications of AIDS can be PJP. Basically a weird organism that we generally never see causing a pneumonia elsewhere. If you were in the 80s and came in for a pneumonia. You would probably get something like cefotaxime plus clarithromycin. This wouldn’t treat PJP. Normally we treat PJP with high dose sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim.

My point here is that even if someone doesn’t get treatment for HIV that when their immune system eventually becomes ravaged we know better what we are treating and how to treat it. At the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we didn’t know what the virus was or what complications it caused. Now we know the pathway of aids and how better to treat it