Paul Boakye was 22 when he was diagnosed with HIV. It was winter 1986, five years after the world first became aware of the deadly disease that would become known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). After receiving the news, Boakye was certain he was going to die young. “I distinctly remember a doctor telling me that I probably wouldn’t live to see 30,” he said.  Years passed, and Boakye watched as both his former partner and many of his friends died of complications from HIV, which infiltrates immune cells and weakens the body’s defenses. During the early days of the HIV...