Anti-HIV Therapy Boosts Life Expectancy More Than 13 Years
Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 23:21
in Health & Medicine
HIV patients taking a cocktail of drugs called combination antiretroviral therapy have seen a 13-year boost in life expectancy, according to a new study. Improved survival has led to a nearly 40 percent drop in AIDS deaths among 43,355 HIV-positive study participants in Europe and North America, bolstering the call for improved anti-HIV efforts worldwide, the study authors said.
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