Once every 8 weeks is entirely more palatable and manageable than a daily pill in my mind. Daily pill forgetfulness leads to things like unplanned kids. Unplanned kids are life altering, but generally not deadly, unlike a communicable disease like HIV.
I don't want to downplay the severity of contracting a life-altering disease like HIV, but with modern antiretroviral therapy the life expectancy for HIV positive people is actually about 70-80 years, though not that ART is side effect free...
