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Normal Life Spans With HIV? Study Says Yes!

From Mark Cichocki, R.N., About.com GuideJuly 31, 2010

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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August 1, 2010 at 5:22 am
(1) Jason :

Which issue is this in? I would be interested to read the article. Any ideas of where I could find it in its entirety?

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