AIDS Patients Now Living Longer, But Aging Faster

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Mon, 11/09/2009 - 6:20pm

Before 1996, when new AIDS drugs were introduced, life expectancy was 18 months post-diagnosis. Now, AIDS patients regularly live for decades with the disease.

But as these patients live longer, unanticipated side effects — caused by the disease itself, medications to treat it or both — introduce a new set of maladies.

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