{"id":38,"date":"2006-08-29T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=38"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:05","slug":"how-long-will-i-live-if-treatment-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/38","title":{"rendered":"How long will I live if treatment is working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should expect to live a long natural life. One recent report (from Switerzerland) suggested that life insurance companies should see HIV-positive people on successful treatment in this light.<\/p>\n<p>Your risk of many other general illnesses, may be slightly higher because you are HIV positive, but the actual risk for most of this is low in real terms.<\/p>\n<p>Advice for the general population on looking after your health is just as important for HIV positive people though in relation to stopping smoking, eating a healthy balanced diet and taking exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Please see similar questions on life expectancy at this link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/life-expectancy\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/life-expectancy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: This answer to a question in August 2006 was last updated in February 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was diagnosed as HIV+ in March 2006 and started treatment immediately. I now have a good CD4 count &amp; my viral load is now undetectable and I don&#8217;t need to have these checked again for 3 months (was every month before).<\/p>\n<p>If I continue as above, what is my life expectancy? I&#8217;m now 32 &amp; would like to live to a ripe old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}