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HIV Medications Mean Normal Life Spans

From Mark Cichocki, R.N., About.com Guide   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 :

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.

March 4, 2011 at 8:06 pm
(2) Nicky :

I wish I was you. I am only 22, got it when I was 16.. and now my CD4 count has dropped to 350. I am scared of the meds, I have a toddler that I want to see grow up.. so yeah, I wish I was you…. seventeen years is wonderful

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