Antiretroviral Therapy Works, And HIV-Infected People Live Long

Antiretroviral Therapy Works, And HIV-Infected People Live Long.
Better treatments are extending the lives of commonalty with HIV, but aging with the AIDS-causing virus takes a exaction that will stimulation the salubriousness care system, a new report says premature. A look into of about 1000 HIV-positive men and women ages 50 and older living in New York City found more than half had symptoms of depression, a much higher be worthy of than others their adulthood without HIV.

And 91 percent also had other habitual medical conditions, such as arthritis (31 percent), hepatitis (31 percent), neuropathy (30 percent) and elated blood compressing (27 percent). About 77 percent had two or more other conditions. About half had progressed to AIDS before they got the HIV diagnosis, the surface found online. "The approving release is antiretroviral therapies are working and common man are living.

If all goes well, they will have life expectancies similar to those without HIV," said Daniel Tietz, top banana director of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America natural-breast-success club. "But a 55-year-old with HIV tends to demeanour have a fondness a 70-year-old without HIV in terms of the other conditions they desideratum treatment for," he said Wednesday at a meeting of the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House in Washington, DC.

The explore included interviews with 640 men, 264 women and 10 transgender people. Dozens of experts on HIV and aging attended the meeting, which was intended to associate the needs of older adults with HIV and to scrutinize ways to recuperate services to them. Currently, about 27 percent of those with HIV are over 50. By 2015, more than half will be, said the report.

Because of their singular needs, this poses challenges for consumers fettle systems and organizations that offer seniors and mortals with HIV. HIV can be isolating. Seventy percent of older Americans with HIV room alone, more than twice the deserve of others their age, while about 15 percent live with a partner, according to the report.