I was under the impression that someone who is HIV positive is essentially a walking skin-bag of slow-acting poison, with no known antidote.
My family has associated with a nurse who’s had HIV for 15 years now, and we’ve suffered no ill effects. Nor have her family members who live with her.
For one thing, with treatment, HIV no longer blossoms into AIDS with the same frequency it once did. There are many people who have been HIV positive for years now and still have functioning immune systems. It’s not the death sentence or the danger that it once was.
Being HIV positive in no way means that your immune system is compromised. It only means that you’re carrying a virus that in the 21st century, may compromise your immune system.
Even it does develop into AIDS. Those with AIDS do not present a greater risk to those around them unless body fluids are being exchanged. Those around them, present a risk to them.