My friend Christopher found out that he had AIDS in 1994. Prof. Robert Garofalo looks after adolescents with HIV. He received his HIV diagnosis in 2010. In our conversation, we discussed their experience of living with HIV after their diagnoses over a decade apart.
Today, many people living with HIV consider it to be a chronic condition. But this was not always so. Until the advent of treatments that could successfully suppress the virus, receiving an HIV diagnosis was essentially on par with a death sentence.
The approval of the first combination antiretroviral treatments in the late 1990s proved a game-changer for those living with HIV and AIDS.
Nowadays, there are options to take preventive medication to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. The number of people contracting the virus is slowly declining in many parts of the world. Yet, we are far from eradicating the virus or successfully addressing the multifactorial issues that people living with HIV find themselves navigating.
To explore how much has changed since the first reports of a rare lung infection in 1981, I spoke to two people who live with HIV.
Dr. Robert Garofalo is the Chief of Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL, as well as a professor of pediatrics at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Rob received his HIV diagnosis in 2010.
The other person is my friend Christopher, who worked as a dancer, then as a childcare practitioner both in the United Kingdom and in Chicago before retraining as a dispensing optician. Christopher moved back to the U.K. in 1994. He found out that he had AIDS not long after.
In our conversation, both Rob and Christopher shared how they found out that they were HIV-positive. They talked about the pivotal factors that helped them cope with their diagnosis and living with HIV long-term.
We also discussed their views on the continued stigma surrounding those living with HIV and what the future may hold.
Source: Medical News Today
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