Belynda Dunn, a prominent AIDS activist, went on a new antiretroviral AIDS treatment, and went from asymptomatic to extremely ill. The new, aggressive AIDS regimens are so effective that they can reduce an AIDS patient's viral load to undetectable, but there are drawbacks and side effects to these new drug cocktails. Could you live with a treatment that kept you alive but also made your life painful and difficult? Ms. Dunn eventually made the decision to go off her medication, and has died in the time since the video was made.

Please watch the following video clip and answer the corresponding follow-up questions.

The New Face of Aids

1			As Ms. Dunn describes, the side effects of aggressive antriretrovirals can be devastating. What kinds of social, emotional, and practical factors might go into the decision whether to go on aggressive medication?
2			Some of the newer AIDS treatments can give people with HIV and AIDS years more of life that they had expected. How might such radically altered expectations give rise to a new set of psychological issues to be faced?