{"id":543,"date":"2018-01-02T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=543"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:09","slug":"how-long-can-a-man-live-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/543","title":{"rendered":"How long can someone live with HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern HIV drugs mean that life expectancy is now similar for HIV positive people to the general population.<\/p>\n<p>This is based on being diagnosed early and having access to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The wide range of factors related to life expectancy include: where you live, your income, access to health care, lifestyle (alcohol, drugs, tobacco, exercise and diet) and other infections like hepatitis, genetics and chance &#8211; good or bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>Several large studies have been published showing that life expectancy for HIV positive people is very good, and near to an HIV negative person.<\/p>\n<p>Without treatment, HIV will slowly progress in nearly everyone. This speed that HIV progresses varies from a few years to more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: this answer was updated in January 2018 from a question posted in August 2008..<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long can a man live with HIV if he was around 18 years old and was healthy when he was infected, both with and without medication?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-life-expectancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}