Study finds 3,000,000 years of life saved by HIV treatment in the U.S.A detailed study of the population-wide benefit of AIDS treatment improvements (both antiretrovirals and other treatment) estimated that at least 3,000,000 years of life have been saved in the U.S. so far, compared to no treatment. The paper and an accompanying ac·com·pa·ny v. ac·com·pa·nied, ac·com·pa·ny·ing, ac·com·pa·nies v.tr. 1. To be or go with as a companion. 2. editorial were published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases infectious diseases: see communicable diseases. , and they are available free online. For More Information The full article, including a link to the accompanying editorial, is at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/issues/v194n1/35845 /35845.html You can also find reporting about this article by doing the following Google search Google is owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. : HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. "three million" |
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