HIV Life Expectancy Approaching Normal

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 06/27/2008 - 13:07

NEW YORK -- In the early days of the HIV pandemic, patients could expect only a few years between diagnosis and a final, fatal, AIDS-associated illness, but today life expectancy has increased four-fold.

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