{"id":482,"date":"2008-05-30T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=482"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:24","slug":"how-long-can-someone-live-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/482","title":{"rendered":"How long can someone live with HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people ask this or a similar question, and often it is because they are worried about their health, or a friends health, after a recent HIV diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>With access to treatment, and careful use of treatment, then life expectancy is close to that of an HIV-negative person. Researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/htb\/v9\/htb9-1-2\/HIV.html\">in this study<\/a> estimated that after 6-7 years successful treatment, an HIV-positive person with a high CD4 count has similar health risks to someone who is HIV-negative.<\/p>\n<p>Without access to treatment, or by not using treatment properly, then HIV is still something to take very seriously. Late diagnosed HIV is one of the main factors in HIV-related deaths in western countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is minimum life expectancy of a person living with HIV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}