Keywords VIROLOGY, AIDS, HIV, EPIDEMIOLOGY, POVERTY AND WEALTH, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, INFECTION, ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY Description HIV patients taking a cocktail of drugs called combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) 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. Newswise — The life expectancy for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased by more than 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to advancements in antiretroviral therapy, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver,...
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