Excellent observations, thanks. I'd like to clarify just one point of your article. People living with HIV today cannot pass the virus on to others through sex or blood transfusions unless they choose not to be treated or if they don't know they have HIV.

Practically all people living with HIV (with some medically exceptional outliers who are extremely rare and who tend to know who they are) in the United States can be effectively treated, which means the HIV level in their blood and semen reaches undetectable and untransmissible levels.

The US CDC has been telling people for years, definitively, that HIV-positive people in effective treatment cannot pass the virus on. This has been well known since long before 2017. (The CDC released official guidance in 2016, but experts had been saying the same thing for several years based on two giant studies of many thousands of gay male couples in which one member was HIV positive and the other negative, and who had frequent unprotected sex with each other. In both studies, zero HIV-negative members of the couples became positive. Even before the results of those two large studies became known, doctors had been arguing the same thing, since around the turn of the millennium, based on their clinical experience.)

Anyway, I endorse all your points, but I just wanted to add this bit of information.