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| HIV/AIDS Now a Chronic Condition |
A Canadian medical study shows that due to the use of combination anti-retroviral drug therapy the life expectancy of HIV/AIDS patients are on average thirteen years longer than just a decade ago, transforming a fatal disease into a chronic condition. The study examined ongoing research into more than 33,000 HIV patients in the United States, Canada and Europe. The study, which is published in British medical journal The Lancet, found that a 20-year-old starting the anti-retroviral drug therapy could expect to live another 43 years - about two thirds of the average life expectancy of a non-affected person in the countries studied. "People on [antiretroviral therapy] can live a fairly long life," said lead researcher Robert Hogg, from the British Colombia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver. "If they are a woman, they can marry and have a child, and see the child grow up. If they're going to school, they can graduate from university, or they can continue to have a full adult life expectancy." Last update: 01-29-2009 20:34
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