AIDS Drugs Have Saved 3 Million Years of Life
From the NIAID today:
HIV Disease Model Details Survival Benefits of HIV Therapies
Increasingly effective HIV therapy—including a decade of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)—has provided 3 million years of extended life to Americans with AIDS since 1989, report researchers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Most interesting is the table appended to the report showing that since 1989 survival benefit in increased months of life have risen from 3.1 to 159.9