I remember a South Park episode in which Cartman gets HIV because a transfusion of infected blood.
To be more specific, the episode is Tonsil Trouble, here: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/163542/
Of course he is outraged that he god an incurable disease. The fact that is even more outraging, at least to him, is that almost nobody acknowledges the seriousness of his illness. They say that caring about people with HIV is no longer trendy. It’s all about cancer nowadays. AIDS is more of a 90’s disease.
And it seems that it really is so.
If we believe this:
http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2009/05/28/local_news/doc4a1d63cb68531598814432.txt
It seems that this is the first case of a HIV infected person has been cured. Read the article in detail for all the medical mumbo jumbo.
The thing that is a bit scary is that there is no publicity wrapped around it. It seems that nobody cares, or (on a bigbrotherish approach) the media doesn’t want people to know.
Either way, South Park seems to have nailed it again, when saying it’s more of a 90’s disease. :)