From your brief description, I would say the article you read was quite accurate.
In the US and other industrialized nations, or wherever financial, infrastructural, and medical technology limitations are not serious, HIV infected people can expect to live nearly normal lifespans. It's a bit too soon to know if that prediction is truly accurate -- after all, we are only ~35 years into the known HIV/AIDS epidemic, and only 15 years into truly effective anti-HIV treatment.