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"The lives of more than 740,000 people in nine African countries were saved between 2004 and 2008 by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief [PEPFAR]," according to a study conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Wednesday.
17 May 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
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Unmet subsistence needs - not having a place to sleep and not having access to regular meals, clean clothes or good hygiene - had the largest single effect on the physical and mental health of patients in a UCSF study of 288 homeless HIV-positive men.
27 April 2012 | San Francisco Chronicle
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Hospital admissions for AIDS illnesses dropped steadily from 2001 to 2008 in a four-center US study, while admissions for cardiovascular disease in HIV-positive people rose.
29 March 2012 | International AIDS Society
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A 20-year-old, HIV-infected individual on treatment who is living in the
U.S. or Canada can reasonably expect to live into his or her early 70s,
which is slightly lower than the U.S. general average of 78 years,
according to a study presented at CROI 2012.
However, there were notable differences in life expectancy depending on
several factors, including transmission group, race and baseline CD4+
cell count.
28 March 2012 | The Body Pro
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Some sobering news from the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS): Black women living with HIV are more likely to progress to AIDS and twice as likely to die of its complications compared with white women living with HIV, according to new results from the cohort presented Tuesday, March 6, at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle.
15 March 2012 | AIDSMeds
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Researchers from the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies
have presented results which show that in areas where antiretroviral
therapy uptake is high (greater than 30%) people who do not have HIV are
38% less likely to acquire the virus than in areas of low uptake (less
than 10%).
09 March 2012 | UNAIDS
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Bohdan Nosyk and Julio Montaner of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, Canada argue in an Essay published in this week's PLoS Medicine that the cost-effectiveness of HAART roll out has been significantly underestimated, because economic analyses have not yet taken into account the beneficial impact of HAART on prevention of HIV transmission.
14 February 2012 | Eurekalert Inf Dis
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The life expectancy for babies born in New York City reached 80.6 years in 2009, the highest level recorded and one that surpasses the national life expectancy rate, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Tuesday.
03 January 2012 | New York Times
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Turning a new leaf - to a new year, to be specific - always brings back memories, mostly sad, about the tough times I had when I tested positive, and it seemed like every single day was my last.
28 December 2011 | AllAfrica
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California has made dramatic gains in reducing the hospitalization rates
of people living with HIV and AIDS, but there are still racial
disparities, according to a new state report.
30 November 2011 | Los Angeles Times
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