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Bugchasing: intentionally infecting yourself with HIV
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Everything you said is 100% true. Absolutely.
But compared to the horror of potentially getting HIV, it's pretty magical in promiscuous circles.
It's much better than the alternative
I see HIV patients on a daily basis at my job and there is no almost no horror. I haven't seen a "real" AIDS case (the final stadium of the infection) in years and even the one patient that came close had a Lazarus like recovery once he started ART.
HIV is still a serious disease with comorbidities but it's "only" chronical not lethal.
But a prevented infection is better than a treated one, so you're right.
Last thing I read about HIV was, that if everybody takes their medicine, infection rates would go to zero and thus HIV could be destroyed in some generations, at least in the western. Africa is still a hug problem afaik. Rumor says, that some people there get infected just to get the HIV drugs which can get you high.