HEALTH GOSSIP: Being HIV positive is no longer a death sentence...!

Being HIV positive is no longer the death sentence it once was, as life expectancy of those receiving treatment is approaching that of the general population.

Researchers found a 20-year-old HIV-positive adult on antiretroviral therapy (ART) may be expected to live into their early 70s - a life expectancy approaching that of the general U.S. population. However, life expectancy is lower for people with a history of injecting drugs as well as those who are not white.

The life expectancies of nearly 23,000 individuals on ART - which consists of the combination of at lleast three antiretroviral drugs to best suppress the HIV virus andstop the progression of HIV disease - were calculated based on mortality rates in the early to mid-2000s.

Participants in the study, by the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, were aged 20 years or older.

The remains what about the Blacks....?

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