According to a new study in United Kingdom the Life expectancy of people living with HIV/AIDS increased significantly, with findings attributed to early detection and treatment.
Medical News Today has the report:
Thanks to earlier diagnosis and improvements in antiretroviral therapy, life expectancy for people treated for HIV infection has gone up by more than 15 years in the UK since the mid-90s, according a study reported in the BMJ yesterday. However, an accompanying editorial says the survival figures, which are some 13 years less than for the UK population as a whole, are still not good enough.
Academics at the University of Bristol and University College London (UCL), led the Medical Research Council (MRC)-funded research.
They used data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) study on over 17,500 patients who started antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2008 at HIV clinics throughout the UK and compared their life expectancy with that of the UK population.
Lead author Dr Margaret May, Senior Research Fellow at Bristol’s School of Social and Community Medicine, told the press their findings “strongly support” the idea of more widespread testing for HIV.
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