@Coloma I know married people who died. No one close to me, but someone at my dad’s work died. Cheating husband basically wound up killing her. One other couple I know of who I knew in a distant way had similar circumstance.
A close friend of the family had a lot of surgeries, which included blood transfusions, during the ‘80’s, and he had to get tested, hoping he hadn’t received tainted blood. If he had, his wife would possibly have been positive too. It was a horrible time.
I don’t want to take the Q on a long tangent about AIDS, but a lot if people changed their sexual behavior during that time. I’m not saying the majority did, but people did pause.
A ton of people I know have had STD’s. If we include HPV the number is mind boggling, and that one can kill you too. I think STD rates are severely under reported. I don’t think most of them are mandatory to report, although, I’m not sure exactly how that’s all handled. Some of them definitely are mandatory. That doesn’t even address doctors not diagnosing them, or people not even going to the doctor to get diagnosed.