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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 353207" data-attributes="member: 46">He would be alive now provided that he had access to the medication and took it. They can even stop HIV being transmitted these days with a drug called PrEP.Timothy Patrick Murphy died in 1988, and I don't think there were any treatments at all for HIV/AIDS until 1987, so a literal death sentence. The early treatments up to 1992 basically bought a bit more time of living, but little else, so still a death sentence. By 1992 to 2004 or so, they were talking in terms of 5-10 years of survival after diagnosis, by delaying the time before HIV becomes AIDS. After 2004, they were able to stop HIV becoming AIDS for much longer periods and perhaps indefinitely, and in the last 4 years the PrEP drug to stop it being transmitted.</blockquote>