Today the physical ramifications of contracting HIV and AIDS has been significantly diminished because of the medications that have been developed to control those viral diseases.
If these medications are taken as prescribed it is common for an infected person to be evaluated as having an undetectable prognosis of the HIV and Aids virus in their blood system.
This does not mean that they no longer have the virus only that their CD4 count and viral load is so low as to be classified as being undetectable by conventional methods.
As long as a person stays on their medications and maintain healthy dietary habits and stay away from harmful habits, such as illegal drug use, excessive alcohol consumption, and tobacco products, to name a few, their CD4 count and their Viral load will more than likely remain low enough to be diagnosed as being undetectable.
An HIV and AIDS infected person should not allow themselves to be lured into a false sense of security because the virus has been diagnosed as being in an undetectable state.
They should always be very mindful that they have a lurking terror at resident in their blood system that will renew its unrestrained and unrelenting assault on their immune system if denial and wishful thinking on their part gives it the opportunity to do so.
Current HIV and AIDS medications can be of great benefits to the HIV and AIDS infected person's body but cannot do much improvement on the person's mind in the way that they think and feel about themselves.
Education and support groups can do allot towards easing the emotional pain, but these are bandages applied to protect the wound but does not heal it.
To say that being diagnosed as being HIV or AIDS positive is a life changer is a monumental understatement to say the absolute least.
A person's humanity and sense of self plummets when this prognosis is revealed to them.
Their outlook on life is transformed into a vanishing point.
Some become bitter and resentful and want to terrorize others for what they have by deliberately infecting them.
Others curse GOD and the world for having so unjustly dealt with them by means of a self-sustaining and mutating plague breeding like a fungus inside of their body.
And then there are others who accept, as they possibly can, what they have and are determined not to allow the virus to debunk their lives.
A number of factors affect how a person deals with the news that they are HIV or AIDS positive.
If they are already very troubled this news is the push that will send them flying over the edge.
If they are strong-willed they will use every tool at their disposal to counterattack the attacker.
If they are dreamers and unwilling to face facts they will cover themselves in denial (placing themselves and others in jeopardy).
To each, his and her own way of facing the difficult to face.
A person infected with HIV or AIDS have a constant and persistent dense, dark shadow hovering over and within them.
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for them to have peace of mind concerning themselves and their lives because always in the back of their mind they are very conscious that they carry a plague, that as of yet, has no cure.
The way that they conduct themselves in the day-to-day is altered because they make every effort to safeguard others, especially their family members and significant others, from the hazard that flows inside of them.
An inner sadness becomes filtered into their countenance and becomes a part of their facial look and appearance.
Behind the smile is the ever-present knowledge that they are not normal.
Coating their disposition is a feeling of shame, disgrace, embarrassment, and infamy.
Their reasoning is constantly under attack by a ravenous bug that wants to absorb all of their life-sustaining nutrients and give nothing back in return except sickness and death.
The want and the need for love and romance is clipped at the viral load.
And their hopes and promises are now being regulated by their CD4 count.
The strong is knocked down and gets back up swinging, but even the strongest cannot deliver and knockout punch to an opponent that stalks in the shadows and deliver kicks to the knees and ankles using stealth and concealment.
HIV and AIDS are not just devastating to the body, but they ravish the mind just as thoroughly as they do the body.
And so treatment of HIV and AIDS is three-fold for a triune being; the body, the mind, and the spirit, because all three parts of the human being working in concert will have either a positive or a negative impact on how the virus is controlled.
And this must be done until the day come and the moment arrives when a cure for HIV and AIDS is found.
And this goes for cancers and all other diseases that robs a person of the quality of life.