If you could count all of the microbes in your body, what percentage would be human and what percentage would not?Mark Milano, a community educator with the New York-based AIDS foundation ACRIA, often asks his clients this question when they first come to see him, usually not long after first being diagnosed with HIV. The answer is that 95% of our bodies are made up of non-human lifeforms - viruses, bacteria and protozoa. "The human body is a host for millions of pathogens," Milano tells me. "People with HIV just have one more. We are no different from anybody else."But, he says, there are still very few standards in the treatment of HIV or in the availability of reliable information. And Milano believes that the medical care provided by doctors is not enough to effectively treat individuals living with HIV—or to stem the spread of the epidemic.Read more on i-D .