I have read “If HIV Meds Grew On Trees” and would like to offer my comments. As a person who has lived with HIV for several years now, I certainly welcome new ideas and treatment possibilities. However, the cost of HIV meds in Canada is still VERY high. To propose that all people who have HIV infection go on medication would prove to be a terrible economic burden, and I am sure that a good number of people such as myself could not adhere to the regular purchase of these drugs. I have had to file bankruptcy because there is NOT a single province in Canada other than Alberta that has an adequate assistance program for life sustaining drugs.
The other point to mention is the side effects associated with these drugs. No one, not even doctors, can understand or truly sympathize with the difficulties a person has to bear in trying to cope with medication side effects. Why would anyone subject themselves to these side effects just so that HIV transmission can be reduced in 45 years?
