Aging HIV/AIDS Survivors Create New Class of Patients
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Many of the people receiving [ARV] treatment who are now in their forties are expected to live well into their sixties. (...)
“We are now in a lucky situation that people infected with HIV in Africa and sub-Saharan Africa live to old ages,” said Barnighausen. "But with this prediction comes the challenge to prepare health and social systems to adequately respond to this new population, which will come into being over the coming decades."
Dr. Barnighausen says these people will have special disease burdens, and their treatment will require special expertise. For instance, new clinical trials are needed to learn whether antiretroviral treatments could interfere with drugs that HIV patients might be taking for other chronic conditions, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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“We are seeing that people are developing certain types of cancers at a higher rate - the combination of HIV and the treatment for HIV is leading to higher rates for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Osteoporosis,” Simmonds noted.
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