With his 100th birthday coming this spring, Miguel is the oldest known person with HIV in the world.
Researchers say he is both a “sign of hope” and the face of things to come since medical science transformed this once-menacing virus from a “death sentence” into a “chronic, manageable condition.”
WATCH: Director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Dr. Julio Montaner, discusses advances in treatment since the 1980s.