“She berated me, saying something to the effect of “you should be ashamed of yourself.”
I asked her, “How long do I have to live?”
She said “three to five years if you take a multivitamin and stop smoking.”
And she hung up.
Here is the first-person web story by Dave Pineau:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hiv-pandemic-first-person-1.6275734
And his interview which aired on Ottawa Morning: