How many people are still alive with HIV/AIDS having been infected since 1984?


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There are currently 38.6 million people living with HIV/AIDS.

21 million people have died since 1981 (the first realization of the spread of the disease.

People are living longer with AIDS with the advent of better treatments; however, most of the people who were originally infected are probably dead, as they had no treatment available for years.

The government at the time did not acknowledge it as a problem. Reagan was president, and he never even mention the word "AIDS" until 1983.

The government spent $1 million researching the disease in 1981 and 1982. By comparison, the government spent $9 million in response to the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, which killed less than 50 people in the late 1970s.

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only a few or may be 0
Lots of them!
Studies have shown that people infected and follow their treatment correctly can survive for over 20 years. So mathematically, someone infected with AIDS, could meet and even assist to his grand kid's HS graduation


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