Posted on 06/09/2023 6:42:54 PM PDT by fwdude
People with HIV who use effective modern antiretroviral therapy (ART) and maintain a high CD4 T-cell count can expect to live nearly as long as HIV-negative people in the general population, according to study results published in The Lancet HIV. But those with a low CD4 count do not fare as well, underscoring the need to start treatment before serious immune system damage occurs.
“For people with HIV on ART and with high CD4 cell counts who survived to 2015 or started ART after 2015, life expectancy was only a few years lower than that in the general population, irrespective of when ART was started,” the study authors wrote. “However, for people with low CD4 counts at the start of follow-up, life-expectancy estimates were substantially lower, emphasizing the continuing importance of early diagnosis and sustained treatment of HIV.”
(Excerpt) Read more at poz.com ...
In case you think they are thinking straight, here is a comment from one of those affected in the comments at the article:
40 years infected, 32 years since diagnosis. Lowest CD4 was 9, highest VL was 750,000. Lots of OI's with a few very serious. A year 900 and undetectable. Last year my CD4 dipped to 77 due to 8 chemos and 60 doses of radiation to combat 4 cancers in 5 places. My CD4 is climbing nicely and I'm once again undetectable.
Yeah, so healthy.
Until SHTF and these meds aren’t readily available.
I have trouble reconciling “only a few years lower” with “nearly as long”.
And the stronger meds do a number on their vital organs, bones and nervous systems.
Maths is hard for this group.
This was common enough in the complicated drug cocktail days but these days ART is a once a day pill with two or three ART medications in it.
Granted, the early years of treatment were grueling. But no, even today they find the once-a-day treatment so "cumbersome," so much so that they've devised injectibles that are supposed to work for a month or more.
My guess is that the side effects of even the most modern drugs are so unpleasant that a "vacation" seems to be just that.
They get tested to make sure they are still healthy. Any chronic condition can require a change of medication including diabetes. Obviously you don't want HIV to damage the immune system.
You seem to know an awful lot about how "they" spend their weekends and Grindr. Anything you'd like to share?
Are you a pharmacist?
I read. And I read sites like these to learn the enemies habits. You should try it instead of remaining blissfully ignorant.
There’s always work being done on creams, long term medication implants, injectables, vaccines, anything that could make it more like to control, prevent and eradicate HIV. There are studies done here in ATL at Emory.
HIV will NEVER be eradicated or controlled as long as the behavior which perpetuates it is not addressed and suppressed.
The Designer was wise with His judgement.
MSM are disproportionately at risk for HIV infection. In the United States, the estimated lifetime risk for HIV infection among MSM is one in six, compared with heterosexual men at one in 524 and heterosexual women at one in 253.
One in six. The same odds as Russian roulette.
Imagine those people with cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, etc getting all their prescriptions for free from government grants?
Why does a behavioral disease which can be prevented using a 50 cent condom, get all this special attention?
LIARS! Poz was where I read HIV-infected have accelerated aging of 14 years. This leads to cancers and other diseases. I try to research more, but new info is hard to find. Here is article that says HIV ill with cancer age aggressively. To look up more, check FR keyword HIVacceleratedAging:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3991876/posts
I copied wrong link. To read article that says HIV positive with cancer age Aggressive, check FR keyword HIVacceleratedAging. My up opy Now. Laptop problems..
I copied wrong link. To read article that says HIV positive with cancer age Aggressive, check FR keyword HIVacceleratedAging. My up opy Now. Laptop problems..
If you need blood, you’re out of luck. While the newer drugs make HIV “undetectable”, people with AIDS still have a low level of virus in their blood, but the CDC says they can give blood now.
Aids patients, and those with the mRNA treatments that are NOTAVAX are allowed to give blood. I can’t imagine a more dangerous scenario than needing blood to get better, and coming down the AIDS or long Covid, to say nothing of blood clots until death.
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