With current modern medication one will be able to live as long as a normal HIV( negative) person would live except they will have to live with the complications.

ART-Antiretroviral therapy allows HIV patients to manage their symptoms rather easily.The earlier you are diagnosed with HIV and the quicler you start ART the longer you will be able to live.

Except that if you are able to maintain a good life style excluding all the unhealthy foods, habits and addictions such as smoking and exercise, meditate regularly you will live much longer.

If the cd4 count always stays over 250 cells/mm3, risk of HIV symptoms gets lowerd. And the more the count increases the lower the risk gets.

As study that was conducted in denmark revealed that a young person diagnosed with hiv can live an added extra 35 years..which is like a normal humans life span. And other studies showed the life span to increase to 58 years!

So with proper diagnosis you'll possibly live longer..just avoid what is told..