Washington - SANAA
A recent study found that diagnosing HIV infection is no longer a death sentence and that people infected with it have a near-normal life expectancy.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina in the US compared more than 82,000 adults seeking HIV care between 1999 and 2017 with a subset of the US population without HIV.
The researchers explained that during their study, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, they did not take into account differences in death rates due to social and demographic factors rather than the consequences of HIV infection.
The researchers pointed out that the results of the study showed that the huge strides that have been achieved in the fight against "HIV" and the transformation into a disease that people can manage with simple drugs.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people between the ages of 13 and 64 get tested for HIV at least once, as people at higher risk, including those who have a partner who is HIV-positive, should be tested.
