Doctors now know more about how HIV affects humans, how to treat it, and how to safely live with it. People who get diagnosed with HIV today have a much different prognosis compared to people who were diagnosed a few decades ago, as long as they stick to their prescribed treatment plan.
Stella A. Safo, MD, MPH, is an HIV primary care physician and assistant professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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