HIV drugs in Africa promise near-normal lifespan

Combination HIV medications have helped slash deaths from AIDS in the developed world, but it wasn’t known if the drug regimes would also pay off in Africa.

To find out, Dr. Edward Mills, associate researcher at the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, and his colleagues in the U.S. and Uganda analyzed data from 2,315 individuals aged 14 or older, who started the therapy at clinics throughout Uganda between 2000 and 2009.

In Monday’s online issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers report that the life expectancy for young HIV-infected adults starting combination antiretroviral therapy now approaches the life expectancy for all Ugandan adults, similar to the findings in developed countries.

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