Hope For The HIV Positives

If a person acquires HIV, is there any hope for recovery? I've been asked by people about this for maybe a hundred times. I'm not the "Doc", but as a former hospital intern I gained some knowledge about HIV since we were treating HIV positives in the center. Sadly, there's no vaccine against HIV. But there are medications against further infections and complications since it can take 10 years before the symptoms of AIDS manifest. The only thing to watch out for here is the blood -- to make sure that the HIV infection is still in its latent stages.