Today is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of a disease that is still spreading - in spite of all efforts to eradicate it and to treat those infected by the virus.

The Tribune's Lisa Rosetta wrote this compelling story (page one in today's dead-tree edition) about how HIV/AIDS has transformed - with treatment and prevention - from a death sentence to a manageable illness. Unfortunately, that transformation has also brought complacency from those in the groups at risk of contracting it.

"Older gay men are actually really upset about it because they lived through everyone dying and losing all of their friends," said Kristen Ries, director of HIV Clinical Services at the University of Utah School of Medicine. "They don't understand the young people who think, 'Oh, you just take a pill? No problem.' "