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Anti-retro drugs fail to increase HIV patients’ lifespan

Wednesday, 4th July 2007

THE widespread belief that the latest drugs for fighting Aids are reducing death rates has been confounded by a huge study covering 10 years of treatment which involved more than 22,000 patients in Europe and North America.

THE widespread belief that the latest drugs for fighting Aids are reducing death rates has been confounded by a huge study covering 10 years of treatment which involved more than 22,000 patients in Europe and North America.

The study, reported in The Lancet, compared groups of HIV-positive patients started on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) at different times between 1995 and 2003, and followed them for one year. Some of the major findings showed that although HAART appeared to be getting better at bringing down levels of the virus, there was no decrease in overall death rates. In fact, patients? risk of developing or dying from Aids has actually increased in recent years.

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Stephen Hart

January 4th, 2007 9:07pm
What a marvel the internet is - imagine, if it were not for this, we would have nothing but the word of the local paper & our GP to go on - risky business when one begins to inform oneself!
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