Treatment leads to near-normal life expectancy for people with HIV in South Africa

These findings are encouraging and show that with long-term treatment, HIV can be managed as a chronic illness in middle- and low-income settings, and also suggest that the estimates used by life insurance companies and epidemiological modellers may need to be revised -- these estimates typically assume that life expectancy after starting ... (more)

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