The results of a new study are being published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association, and it relates different issues dealing with the AIDS epidemic and drugs that were introduced to fight the symptoms of the disease in the 1990’s. The most notable item to come out of this study is that the life expectancy of people with HIV is nearing that of people without the disease. Experts agree that HIV medication cocktails are the reason HIV life expectancies are getting longer.
Read more in this article from EON of Canada.
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US health officials have announced that new surveillance data shows that the number of new HIV infections has increased in men who have sex with other men (MSM). The figures are especially disturbing in men and boys 13 to 24 years old as well as minority men. Men who have sex with men are the largest transmission category in the US and the only one that is showing an increase in the number of new infections. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) commented that the increase in HIV cases among MSM indicates that prevention and testing strategies need to be strengthened and improved especially among MSM and minorities.
Read more in this article from Reuters Health.
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