For those fortunate enough to receive improved treatment regimens, AIDS is no longer an inevitable death sentence.
One woman in the U.S. state of Oregon is not only living with AIDS, she's giving new life.
Alina Cho has her story.
Jennifer Jako does all the things other pregnant women do.
She continues to work.
This is beautiful.
Gets plenty of exercise and makes regular visits to the doctor.
But Jako is different. At age 18, she made a poor decision that changed her life.
We both got drunk and neither of us, I think, wanted to but we ended up having sex.
Jako felt so awful about it, she decided to become abstinent.
It was too late.
With those words, Jennifer, I'm sorry, your pap smear is normal but your HIV test is positive. I'm sorry.
Everything came crashing around me.
Every dream, every hope, everything I thought I would be was over.
I would never be the girl that I was.
All of a sudden I was the infection.
The prognosis at the time was not good.
Doctors told her, if she was lucky she'd live to be 25.
I had no idea that it could happen to me.
I truly thought of this disease as a disease of gay men, IV drug users.
What in my family were spoken of as bad people. People that we didn't know.
That was 15 years ago. Today, Jako is alive and well, thanks to modern medicine.
Three pills twice a day. She never misses a dose.
She also watches what she eats and gets plenty of sleep.
Pregnant through in vitro fertilization, her baby girl is due in July and the chances of her child being HIV positive are about 1 percent.
That's in large part because Jako's virus has been successfully suppressed.
A story so remarkable, she recently landed on the cover of "Newsweek" magazine with this provocative photo inside.
Chris Bleiler has been by her side for nine years, five of them as her husband.
They've practiced safe sex. He's remained healthy and HIV negative and is now looking forward to fatherhood.
He thinks about it a lot.
I think about it probably more than I should.
He spends a lot of time wondering if he's going to be a good dad and just hoping that he does all the right things.
Just like any other couple, except this one is learning to live with HIV.
I look at every day as golden. I get to have today.
I get to have the time that I share with my family or my friends.
I get to have a good day today.
Jako says she hopes to live to see her child graduate from high school.
Her doctor says she needs to start looking forward to being a mother, a grandmother and saving up for retirement.