HIV drugs changed AIDs from a fatal illness to a smoldering disease. Like diabetes, HIV is rarely cured. One can never prove if your viral load is zero, that the viruses are totally gone. Once infected it’s possible infect someone else, particularly the case of pregnancy, or to reconvert to clinical disease. This was the…

I remember when I took tenth grade biology, our first discussion about what is alive. By that time I’d already had intense interest in biology. I had an internal premonition that I was destined to be a doctor since elementary school and considered medicine merely a part of biology devoted to humans. I was naive…