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Survival of Children with HIV in the United States Has Improved Dramatically Since 1990s, New Analysis Shows

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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.

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Posted on Friday, December 18, 2009

Topic: NIH Research News, Pediatrics


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