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Information about the impact of HIV treatment on viral load, the immune system, other health conditions, mortality and quality of life. The life expectancy of people living with HIV is similar to that of other people, as long as they get the right medical treatment and care.

Side effects

Is Long-Term Treatment Better with Raltegravir Than with Efavirenz?

Editor's pick
Journal Watch
4 June 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Expanded access to HIV treatment achieves big falls in mortality rates in China

News
23 May 2013
Starting treatment

AZT associated with poorer immunological recovery in people taking first-line HIV treatment in southern Africa

News
22 May 2013
Retention & linkage to care

Case workers can re-engage a high proportion of HIV-positive people lost to long-term care

News
20 May 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

People with HIV pay more for life insurance – if they can get it

Editor's pick
Mail & Guardian Online
17 May 2013
Retention & linkage to care

Engagement with health care leads to more prompt HIV diagnosis and higher rates of virological suppression among gay men

News
16 May 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Life expectancy for South African patients who start HIV therapy with CD4 cell counts above 200 is 'near normal'

News
15 April 2013
Epidemiology

Less South Africans Dying of HIV/Aids, but More of Diabetes

Editor's pick
AllAfrica.com
11 April 2013
Reproductive health

One-in-four deaths in pregnancy due to HIV in worst-affected countries

News
9 April 2013
Migrants, refugees & displaced people

Study: Undocumented Latinos Get Into HIV Treatment Dangerously Late

Editor's pick
ColorLines
4 April 2013
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Study: In Malawi lifelong antiretroviral treatment for expectant moms “translates into saving more than 250,000 maternal life years”

Editor's pick
Science Speaks
27 March 2013
Money

People doing well on HIV therapy "should be eligible" for life insurance cover

News
22 March 2013
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Men in same-sex marriages are living longer, study says

Editor's pick
Los Angeles Times
13 March 2013
Opportunistic infections

Continuing cotrimoxazole in children on ART reduces the risk of hospitalisation

News
6 March 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

In resource-rich countries, migrants have a higher risk of progressing to AIDS in the first year of HIV therapy

News
1 March 2013
Hepatitis C treatment

Study shows value of hepatitis C therapy for HIV co-infected patients with compensated cirrhosis

News
28 February 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Anti-HIV drug effort in South Africa yields dramatic results

Editor's pick
Los Angeles Times
22 February 2013
Hepatitis B

Triple trouble: infection with hepatitis B increases risk of death for people with HIV and hepatitis C co-infection

News
19 February 2013
Nutrition

Texas: Food availability linked with poor outcomes for HIV-positive children

Editor's pick
Baylor College of Medicine press release
12 February 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Minorities With HIV Fare Better With Culturally Competent Doctors

Editor's pick
AIDSMeds
8 February 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Multiple factors affect HIV prognosis, study shows

Editor's pick
Yale Daily News
5 February 2013
Side effects

Tenofovir impairs enzyme that stops cells ageing

News
31 January 2013
Hepatitis C symptoms & diagnosis

Spanish research shows that liver stiffness can predict outcomes in people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C

News
30 January 2013
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Mortality rates continue to fall in the Swiss HIV cohort

News
25 January 2013