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Not to take anything away from your comment, but he was well past having just HIV, and full bore into AIDS, and he was also not even remotely wealthy. Having graduated from living in his car full time to a 180 square foot apartment just before his uninsured car was stolen.

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He probably meant "rich" in the global sense.

True, that is incredible that we can kick this disease pretty hard now. However the problem still stands, the only known solution is a bone marrow transplant and that requires a corpse + a 50/50 chance to die.

Bone marrow is generally harvested from living people.

Some links here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow#Harvesting

I'm guessing he wasn't sick in the USA, since you actually need to be rich to pay for specialized healthcare here.

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