HIV life expectancy is now ‘near-normal’ due to new drugs

Young people who are taking the latest HIV drugs have a near-normal life expectancy as a result of improvements in treatments, a study suggests. Doctors writing in The Lancet medical journal reported that 20-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in 2010 are projected to live 10 years longer than those first treated in 1996. Jimmy Isaacs … Continue reading HIV life expectancy is now ‘near-normal’ due to new drugs