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Managed. The example that i give his aides. From the late 70s when the first case of aids and people were getting these infections and you cannot culture the organism and could not find out the cause. They invariably died. Was very highly stigmatized. But its happening people who were gay or drug users. But the advocacy was so telling and so effective that money was poured into research and by 1984 that virus was isolated and in 1987 the first treatment was introduced. So a man who was diagnosed with aids he was dead within a year, in 1991 Magic Johnson was diagnosed with aids, and i saw him the other day. He is leading day. He is leading a pretty normal life with treatment. So it is simply a matter of getting good treatment. The last thing i say is this variation of quality of care everywhere, its more varied than in Psychiatric Care just because the field is well developed. You need to find good treatments and if you do that i think you should be able to help measurably and hopefully