Taking antiretrovirals when you have HIV/AIDS however, extends your life expectancy considerably:
"UK study shows how better HIV drugs extend lives
October 12th, 2011
According to a study published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal, the life expectancy for people in Britain who have HIV rose by 15 years between 1996 and 2008, due in part to earlier diagnosis and better treatment, as reported on London South East. The work used data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort study, which began in 2001, with the scientists looking at patients aged 20 and over who started treatment with at least three HIV drugs between 1996 and 2008.
The analysis showed that life expectancy for an average 20-year-old infected with HIV increased from 30 years to almost 46 between the periods 1996 to 1999 and 2006 to 2008.
"We should expect further improvements for patients starting antiretroviral therapy now with improved modern drugs and new guidelines recommending earlier treatment," commented Margaret May, who worked on the study.
The findings also showed that during the period 1996 to 2008, life expectancy was 40 years for male patients and 50 years for female patients, compared with 58 years for men and nearly 62 years for women in the general UK population.
Commenting on the findings, Elena Losina, a senior scientist at the Boston Brigham and Women's Hospital, said that although the progress was encouraging, it should also serve as "an urgent call" to increase awareness among patients and health workers about how effective HIV treatment can be, especially if started early."
By the same token, stopping ARVs, as the ten patients did, according to AQLV's own PRs, as a direct result of being involved in AQLV's clinical study, will shorten their lives.
Again, may I recommend that you perhaps bookmark this post? We seem to go over the same ground quite a lot! TIA.
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