Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-45.47.234.119-20150809070709

An HIV-infected blood transfusion and an entire family dying off from AIDS in an industrialized country? It's supposed to be the 2020s, not the 1980s. Blood donations are universally screened for HIV, and the current regimen of medications is widely effective at keeping AIDS at bay - indefinitely in many cases. I would have preferred if they had contracted some fictional illness or even if their disease had just simply never been labeled. By making use of arguably the most infamous disease in the world, you open yourself to unnecessary scrutiny by anyone with even a basic understanding of modern HIV treatment and prevention. Plus you perpetuate the misconception that HIV is an automatic death sentence, which has a detrimental effect on public health education. 