HIV in analogy.

HIV infection is a train that carries a person from the starting station - the moment of infection to the final station - the stage of AIDS.

In order to explain something simply and clearly, analogies from well-known areas are often used. The analogy of HIV infection and a train was invented by someone a long time ago and is, in my opinion, very clear to everyone and very accurately reflects the essence. I decided to add therapy to this analogy, and then in a more complete formulation it sounds like this:

HIV infection is a train that carries a person from the starting station - the moment of infection to the final station - the stage of AIDS. Immune status is the remaining distance to the final station. Viral load is the speed of the train. Therapy is a stop valve that stops the train and turns it back on. But if you pull the stop valve too late and at high speed, then the inertia of the train will no longer allow you to effectively brake it and engage reverse.

author myhiv.livejournal.com