HIV Drugs - Start Early or Later......?

Do you remember the days when “hit hard hit early” were the norm. It wasn’t that long ago that HIV-positive individuals were told to start taking HIV medications right away. Due to side effects and resistance, we re-examined this and learned that you didn’t need to start drugs so quickly. Now the trend seems to be to start earlier again. There are a lot of new drugs coming down the pipe, however we still don’t know what the long term side effects will be from these drugs. There’s also a theory that expanding access to antiretrovirals may help curb the growth of the HIV epidemic (by getting everyone undetectable). A lot of research going on, but are we revisiting the past? Two steps forward, one step back? What do you think about all of this?