Sunday, 20 July 2014

People with HIV living longer, study

EPIDEMICS
People with HIV living longer, study
Paris (AFP) July 17, 2014 - HIV-positive people in the world's rich countries now live nearly as long as those who don't carry the AIDS-causing virus, as drugs have cut the overall death rate in half, researchers said Friday. Anti-retroviral treatment (ART) has cut the death rate from about 18 per 1,000 people between 1999 and 2001 to nine per 1,000 per year in 2009-2011, according to data from 200 clinics in Europe, t ... more


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