HIV is "manageable" already, but only in the sense that it requires, for survival, a lifelong commitment to a daily drug cocktail that has serious side effects.

HIV is "manageable" already, but only in the sense that it requires, for survival, a lifelong commitment to a daily drug cocktail that has serious side effects. And it's always possible that the virus might mutate and escape the antiretrovirals. The treatment under discussion is a cure. It would lead to a normal life, free of drugs. It's a sad return to the days of paternalistic medicine to withold superior treatment because, in the opinion of a third party, the inferior treatment is adequate.