Antiretroviral Therapy Works, And HIV-Infected People Live Long

Antiretroviral Therapy Works, And HIV-Infected People Live Long.
Better treatments are extending the lives of tribe with HIV, but aging with the AIDS-causing virus takes a ringing that will trial the health care system, a new report says. A survey of about 1000 HIV-positive men and women ages 50 and older living in New York City found more than half had symptoms of depression, a much higher charge than others their lifetime without HIV.

And 91 percent also had other habitual medical conditions, such as arthritis (31 percent), hepatitis (31 percent), neuropathy (30 percent) and considerable blood pressure (27 percent). About 77 percent had two or more other conditions. About half had progressed to AIDS before they got the HIV diagnosis, the appear found. "The elevated news is antiretroviral therapies are working and people are living.

If all goes well, they will have sustenance expectancies similar to those without HIV," said Daniel Tietz, executive director of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America. "But a 55-year-old with HIV tends to appearance like a 70-year-old without HIV in terms of the other conditions they have occasion for treatment for," he said Wednesday at a meeting of the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House in Washington, DC.

The examination included interviews with 640 men, 264 women and 10 transgender people. Dozens of experts on HIV and aging attended the meeting, which was intended to recognize the needs of older adults with HIV and to investigate ways to better services to them. Currently, about 27 percent of those with HIV are over 50. By 2015, more than half will be, said the report.

Because of their exceptional needs, this poses challenges for social health systems and organizations that serve seniors and people with HIV, Tietz said. HIV can be isolating, Tietz said. Seventy percent of older Americans with HIV active alone, more than twice the evaluate of others their age, while about 15 percent live with a partner, according to the report.