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Froix Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 105				Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:31 am    Post subject: Drugs Extend Life By a Decade or more     http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8481.html A Bristol University study of more than 43,000 people living with HIV has found that better treatments increase their life expectancy by 13 years. A 20-year-old diagnosed today can expect to live for another 49 years. To be honest I've associated AIDS with early death. :p Clearly the concern lies in how you live with the disease and not how you die of it, why it's called a social disease. _________________ Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
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surfville Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 95				Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:13 am    Post subject:     Progression oh HIV/AIDS takes a long term process. An infected can live even more than 10 years especially if the manifestations / symptoms are controlled well. Proper management is needed to prevent progression of the disease.
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Postman Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 40				Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:30 am    Post subject:     It is true that drugs have the power to extend the lives of many but you must take it in moderation; otherwise it could be fatal on you. Remember that anything that is taken more than what is usual is bad for you.
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bizofwords Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 167				Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:30 pm    Post subject:     of course taking too much is inappropriate, but the reality is that HIV/AIDS is simply not a death sentence
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bubble Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 30 Location: On another planet!!				Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:14 am    Post subject:     With the treatments avaliable today, I am not surprised that this is the case. Although HIV/AIDS is a slow progressing virus, but the right drugs can prolong your life.
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Orrymain Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 72				Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:35 am    Post subject: Re: Drugs Extend Life By a Decade or more     Froix wrote: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8481.html A Bristol University study of more than 43,000 people living with HIV has found that better treatments increase their life expectancy by 13 years. A 20-year-old diagnosed today can expect to live for another 49 years. To be honest I've associated AIDS with early death. :p Clearly the concern lies in how you live with the disease and not how you die of it, why it's called a social disease. The good thing is that the life expectancy has changed. I remember when AIDS was a death sentence of very short term. now it's grown to where there are years to live, not just weeks or months. As time passes, I'm sure we'll have even more advances. _________________ ==Go to your happy place!
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DianaR Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 70				Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:42 pm    Post subject:     Postman wrote: It is true that drugs have the power to extend the lives of many but you must take it in moderation; otherwise it could be fatal on you. Remember that anything that is taken more than what is usual is bad for you. If the choice is to risk death by treatment in favor of death by untreated disease, I say throw caution to the wind. I have yet to hear of anyone who died from an antibiotic overdose.
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Wildwoman Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 31				Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:56 am    Post subject:     Things have changed so much since the first diagnoses of HIV and/or AIDS. People have a chance now that sadly many never got to receive in time.
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