Study: Drug combination can increase life expectancy in HIV patients

published on July 25, 2008 in TopNews

A new study on HIV has revealed that patients who receive drug combinations can expect to live an average of 13 years longer. The researchers of a new study on HIV life expectancy report in the Lancet medical journal, say that a person who started taking the drugs at age 20 could expect to live on average, another 43 years. The AIDS virus infects an estimated 33 million people across the globe and killed about 25 million since it first started in the 1980’s.

Robert Hogg of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, Canada and colleagues examined several studies of patients in the U.S., Canada and many European countries, which were given combination drugs known as highly active antiretroviral therapy or HAART. This therapy utilizes a mixture of various drugs that target the virus in differing ways to lower the level of HIV in the body. The mixture of drugs is modified as the virus becomes resistant or when the side effects of the HIV treatment pose a problem. More >>

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