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Aging HIV/AIDS Survivors Create New Class of Patients
►http://www.voanews.com/english/news/health/-Older-HIVAIDS-Survivors-Create-New-Class-of-Patients--146423535.html?

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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MSF: World #AIDS Day – Flying in the face of evidence
►http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2010/12/01/msf-world-aids-day-flying-in-the-face-of-evidence

“#Treatment costs have also dramatically dropped, with a decrease of over 99% since 2000.
Now, to the incredulity of everyone who has been dutifully monitoring and evaluating treatment in what must be one of the most accountable and successful global public health programmes ever to exist, donors are threatening to withdraw funding from #HIV/AIDS. The same donors who ten years earlier cited lack of clinical or economic evidence are now, in the face of a wealth of robust evidence supporting efficacy and cost-effectiveness, claiming that AIDS is getting too much money, and that it’s time to do something else instead. The US government is turning its attention to maternal and child health, and several European countries seem to be turning away from health altogether.”

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