HIV/AIDS Life Expectancy
HIV-infected drug users not on HAART have the lowest life expectancy of HIV/AIDS cohorts
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 25th, 2006
"The introduction of HAART has led to consistent improvements in survival among HIV-infected individuals. However, there is evidence that not all populations have benefited equally from HAART and that mortality rates are higher in HIV-infected injection drug users than in nonusers," scientists in Canada report.
E. Lloyd-Smith and colleagues at the British Columbia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver conducted a design-based study of HIV-positive persons in British Columbia's HIV/AIDS treatment program to "model life expectancies for...
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