Prompt, early medical treatment and a healthy lifestyle can help you stay well. We have more and better treatments today, and people are living longer and with a better quality of life than ever before. In fact, depending on what else is going on with their health, HIV-infected persons who get on and stay on their medicines can expect to live almost as long as people who don’t have HIV.
You’ll need to keep your doctor’s appointments, take your HIV medicines exactly as directed, and take steps so others don’t get the virus from you.