Wednesday 1 October 2008

Good news on the AIDS front...

Mortality rates and person-years of life lost declined substantially between 1996-1999 and 2003-2005. In the latter period, a 20-year-old starting ART could expect to live an additional 43 years; a 35-year-old, 32 more years.While HIV/AIDS is still, at present, incurable, clinicians and researchers have done much to improve the prognosis of this feared disease. Initially, the average time from diagnosis to death was about 10 years, and those years were often filled suffering from a whole host of opportunistic infections doctors didn't know much about.

In terms of curing or alleviating the burdern of opportunistic infections, we have come a long way. However, it is still hard to offer a prognosis in terms of time. CD4 counts and viral loads offer a clue, but these simply aren't reliable enough to provide a life expectancy to even within a decade.

A recent cohort study aims to rectify that. 14 cohorts from the U.S.A., Canada and Europe were followed up, and the results were surprisingly good:

Mortality rates and person-years of life lost declined substantially between 1996-1999 and 2003-2005. In the latter period, a 20-year-old starting ART could expect to live an additional 43 years; a 35-year-old, 32 more years.

Now, while by no means great (survival is still only about two thirds as good as for the general population), this is a vast improvement. I'm sure that most doctors, let alone most of the public, wouldn't have guessed that someone in their twenties who contracted HIV would, on average, live to their mid sixties.

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  1. I'm here to give my testimony how I was cured from HIV, I contacted my HIV via blade. A friend of my use blade to peel of her finger nails and drop it where she use it, so after she has left i did know what came unto me i looked at my nails, my nails were very long and I took the blade which she just used on her own nails to cut of my finger nails, as i was maintaining my names, i mistakenly injured myself. I did even bother about it, so when I got to the hospital the next week when i was ill the doctor told me that I am HIV positive, i wondered where did i got it from so i remembered how I use my friend blade to cut off my hand so i feel so sad in my heart to the extent that i don’t even know what to do, so one day i was passing through the internet i met a testimony of a lady that all talk about how she was cured by a doctor called DR Imoloa so i quickly emailed the doctor and he also replied to me and told me the requirements which i will provide and I do according to his command, he prepare a herbal medicine for me which I took. He message me the following week that i should go for a test which i did to my own surprise i found that i was HIV negative. He also have cured for all kinds of incurable diseases like: Huntington's disease, back acne, chronic kidney failure, Addison's disease, Chronic Disease, Crohn's Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Fibromyalgia, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Fungal Nail Disease, Paralysis, Celia Disease , Lymphoma, Major Depression, Malignant Melanoma, Mania, Melorheostosis, Meniere's Disease, Mucopolysaccharidosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscle Dystrophy, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Alzheimer Disease and so many. Thanks to him once more the great doctor that cured me dr. Imoloa so you can also email him via drimolaherbalmademedicine@gmail.com or whatsapp him on +2347081986098. / website- drimolaherbalmademedicine.wordpress.com. God Bless you Sir.

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