HIV is no longer deadly Bashny.Net

Discoveries in the field of medicine and pharmaceuticals led to the fact that HIV is no longer deadly. Now, it is classified as a chronic illness, standing in a row with diabetes or cardiovascular disease. < Website tells the details.



US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued statistics showing the increase in life expectancy in HIV patients. For men it is 34%, if in 1987 they were, on average, live 37 and 9 years, by 2013 this figure reached 50, 8. Life expectancy of women has increased from 35, 2 to 49, 7 year (41, 2 %).

To make this possible, carriers of the human immunodeficiency virus should seek treatment at the earliest stages. The effectiveness of anti-retroviral therapy is no longer in doubt: according to statistics, even in patients with weakened immune systems lifespan increases, the probability of transmitting the virus to others is reduced. Calling HIV a chronic disease, doctors explain that the main problem for patients is not the end stage (AIDS), and side effects from taking the set of drugs and general vulnerability to infections because of low immunity.

People with HIV are condemned to receive a large amount of drugs; over the years they will have to keep strict control over their health. However, as noted by doctors, it's no different from the lives of people with other chronic diseases. Thus, the development of medicine has transformed a deadly disease into a chronic and uncontrollable.



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