I don't have HIV as I know today but I could possibly and need to be checked again. I have gotten over my fear of it or coming down with it and do everything to protect myself from it, but many men I know have it. It is sad because it is so stigmatized, but in reality it is not really that dangerous given that other physical problems can take you down a lot sooner, and not everyone wants to live to be 90. Now with the retro-viral drugs, you can easily live to be 20-40 years longer after you contracted it. In rare cases it sometimes never even surfaces into AIDS.