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Compared to a few decades ago, you can live a much longer life thanks to the medication available nowadays.

• wiz21c 8y ago
  well, then it means one understands "treatable" as "there's a treatmen for", it's different thatn "there's a cure for"...
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  • dfxm12 8y ago
    According to the OED[0], "treatable" is a boolean that means "able to be cured". "Very" is superfluous here - something is able to be cured or not, I'm not sure what room there is for degree. As far as I know, there is no cure for HIV (but I'd be happy to learn otherwise). So unless "very treatable" is medical jargon with a different meaning from the how the laity use it, calling HIV "very treatable" does seem to be a stretch. 0 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/treatable https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/treatable
    • dajohnson89 8y ago
      In the medical world, treatable is very different from curable. Chlamydia is a curable bacteria infection (antibiotics). There is no known cure for HIV.