Treatment leads to near-normal life expectancy for people with HIV in South Africa
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
In South Africa, people with HIV who start treatment with anti-AIDS drugs (antiretroviral therapy) have life expectancies around 80 percent of that of the general population provided that they start treatment before their CD4 count drops below 200 (cells per microliter), according to a study by South African researchers.