SURVIVABLE.
People with HIV can live a normal life – but only if they have access to ARVs yet millions in the developing world either can’t afford them, or do not realize they need them because they don’t know their status. It has been discovered that the drugs don’t always work properly if a person doesn’t eat enough. Also poverty and ignorance leads many people to avoiding taking the test.
Those who don’t get tested will never know they’re HIV positive, and will never get treated. The ultimate price of this is death. Sexually-transmitted infections and sex in general can be so hard to talk about, as a result most government often don’t like to deal with HIV not until the problem is already out of control. HIV isn’t getting the political priority it needs.