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HIV/AIDS
HIV patients sicker when seeking care than in the past
November 5th, 2007
It was hoped that as HIV treatment improved and as HIV-related public health initiatives encouraged people to be tested for the disease and seek care, that HIV-infected patients would seek care quickly. Unfortunately, a new study indicates that patients are actually sicker when they begin therapy. The study is published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online. The study, carried out in Baltimore, MD, from 1990 through 2006, shows that HIV patients beginning HIV therapy have trended toward increasing levels of immunocompromise. This is probably an indicator that people are getting tested for HIV later after they've contracted the disease than in the...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-11-05)
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