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AIDS drug roll-out boosts South African life expectancy

South Africa has achieved a "stunning" increase in life expectancy in the last three years due to a government push to roll out antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to people with HIV/AIDS, researchers said on Thursday.

Published
01 December 2012
From
Reuters
Women
Low levels of vitamin D associated with poorer long-term CD4 cell gains in women who start HIV treatment late

Vitamin D insufficiency is associated with poorer CD4 cell recovery among women who start HIV treatment late, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS.

Published
27 November 2012
By
Michael Carter
Treatment guidelines
Abacavir: new studies challenge the evidence of reduced potency when viral load is high

An analysis of two studies of the new HIV integrase inhibitor dolutegravir presented at the Eleventh International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection in Glasgow had

Published
26 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Outcomes and prognosis
Life expectancy in older people with HIV could exceed the average – as long as ART keeps working

The latest forecasts of life expectancy in people with HIV in the UK, based on mortality data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) study, show

Published
19 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Outcomes and prognosis
Death rates elevated at all CD4 counts below 500 in sub-Saharan Africa

A comparison of death rates between the HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners in serodiscordant couples in sub-Saharan Africa has found significantly higher death rates in people with HIV

Published
06 November 2012
By
Keith Alcorn
Outcomes and prognosis
Huge differences in HIV mortality rates in US according to race, social and economic status

New US research has revealed enormous differences in HIV mortality rates between patients according to their race and social and economic status. Published in the online edition

Published
19 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Outcomes and prognosis
HIV Deaths Declining for Most, But Not All, Americans

HIV death rates in the United States declined for most groups of people between 1993 and 2007, according to a large new study.

Published
09 October 2012
From
U.S. News & World Report
Adherence
Dosing frequency and number of pills don't affect HIV treatment outcomes

Levels of adherence to modern HIV treatment are unaffected by dosing frequency or number of daily pills, Italian investigators report in HIV Medicine. However, people who were taking

Published
04 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Ageing and HIV
"Premature Aging" and HIV: Dispelling Myths and Calculating Risk

Here's the bottom line on "accelerated aging" among people with HIV: It's probably not as bad as you think.

Published
25 September 2012
From
The Body
Outcomes and prognosis
US: HIV Care, Outcomes Getting Better

People living with HIV in the U.S. may be doing better at getting treatment and controlling their virus, researchers reported.

Published
05 September 2012
From
MedPage Today
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