sentences:  In an interview in November 2016 with Terry Gross on NPR radio talk show Fresh Air, Jones described his status as HIV+, and said while he first learned of his status when tests for infection came out the 1980s, he was likely infected with the virus around the winter of 1978 or 1979, based on blood samples collected from him as part of a study he volunteered for.In the same interview, Jones also talked about the time when he became seriously ill, and how he responded rapidly to the "cocktail" of drugs that fought the virus, in the earliest trials of it.He described his present health as good.