{"id":260,"date":"2008-01-11T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=260"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:38","slug":"what-is-the-expected-life-span-of-somebody-who-is-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/260","title":{"rendered":"What is the expected life span of somebody who is HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a difficult question to answer, as the expected life span of any person is a calculation of many factors. Among those are: genetic background, socio-economic state, life-style, diet, chronic conditions, job circumstances, level of risk exposure and many more.<\/p>\n

The calculation for the HIV positive people does not differ much. Of course, things like the long-terms effect of the virus as well as drug toxicities are taken into account. Some of the mathematical models that I have seen, say that the expected life span of somebody who starts on medications now and uses only the currently existing medications, is between 30 to 45 years from the point of initiation of therapy.<\/p>\n

Needless to say that newer and better medications appear almost every year, which gives additional hopes to people living with HIV.<\/p>\n

Information and links to recent studies <\/a>on this subject are in the answer to this earlier question.<\/p>\n

Last, but not least, how long anyone lives depends on things you can change (smoking, exercise, medication) and thing you can’t (genetics. and good and bad luck!). These things can happen to all of us – regardless of HIV status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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