Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years

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Rising life expectancies for AIDS patients. Credit: UAB
Rising life expectancies for AIDS patients. Credit: UAB

The life expectancy for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased by more than 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to advancements in antiretroviral therapy, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.


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