>>40645549
40% is 25% away from 50% just so you know.
But more seriously, AIDS is a specific medical term. Having HIV doesn't mean you have AIDS. The vast majority of people living with HIV in developed countries or the US does not have AIDS because their HIV is well controlled through medication. Just as an aside here, if your viral load is undetectable (modern technology can reliably detect viral loads as small as approximately 15 copies of the virus per mL of blood, though most healthcare providers are not concerned about viral loads of 50 - 100 or less since an uncontrolled infection sees loads on the order of tens of thousands to millions depending on lots of factors), then you cannot transmit the virus through unprotected sex. This is what U = U means: undetectable is untransmissible. And of course if you are HIV-negative yourself, you can get a prescription for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) which will also protect you. Medications approved for use as PrEP are literally the same ones that HIV-positive people take daily to control the virus. If you are negative and your partner is positive, you can both just take your meds and be fine.
And remember that "clean" is not a status. It's a stigma. Anyone asking if you're "clean" is trying to deflect responsibility from themselves. Shine a spotlight on it by asking if they're "clean" and then declare that they cannot prove they're clean since they could have been infected at any time since their last test.
In the game of ontological gotcha, no one wins. By introducing the poison of fear and stigma, they've already proven they are not worth your time to get to know, let alone a safe or fulfilling sex partner.
