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By Mark Cichocki, R.N., About.com Guide to AIDS / HIV

HIV Medications Mean Normal Life Spans

Tuesday February 24, 2009
The results of a new study are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it relates different issues dealing with the AIDS epidemic and drugs that were introduced to fight the symptoms of the disease in the 1990’s. The most notable item to come out of this study is that the life expectancy of people with HIV is nearing that of people without the disease. Experts agree that HIV medication cocktails are the reason HIV life expectancies are getting longer. Read more in this article from EON of Canada.

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February 26, 2009 at 4:40 am
(1) Rick says:

Good article. However, I’ve been a long-term survivor for seventeen years without meds. I do have hcv, though, and cirrhosis is more of an issue for me than hiv.

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