Survival of Children with HIV in the United States Has Improved Dramatically Since 1990s, New Analysis Shows
13 01 10 - 11:30 Mortality Rate Still Higher Than for Children without HIVBy Kathy Stover, HIV/AIDS Communications Team Leader, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH
There is some encouraging news about survival rates of children and HIV/AIDS.
The death rates of children with HIV have decreased ninefold since doctors started prescribing cocktails of antiretroviral drugs in the mid-1990s, concludes a large-scale study of the long-term outcomes of children and adolescents with HIV in the United States. In spite of this improvement, however, young people with HIV continue to die at 30 times the rate of youth of similar age who do not have HIV, found researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.
Earlier studies have shown that adults with HIV are living longer because of improved multi-drug antiretroviral regimens known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). However, limited information has existed about the effectiveness of HAART in improving the survival of children with HIV. The current analysis, published online in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, delineates the effects of HAART on the rates and causes of death for HIV-infected children and adolescents.
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From AIDS.gov blog
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