Researchers say that HIV patients can live an average of 13 more years with the help of cocktails of HIV drugs.
A person who takes the drug combinations known as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) at 20 can expect to live another 43 years, the researchers say in their latest study published in the Lancet Medical Journal.
The study notes that the combination drugs can suppress the virus, allowing the patients to live a longer life. There are more than 20 drugs available in the market and a proper combination of the various drugs can help in controlling thy virus. The drug companies have also come up with combination drugs, which have made it easier.
For the infants, the researchers say that the cocktail drugs given to them for weeks, rather than dousing the mother while in labour and the baby after birth, reduces infection rates. Another study in the journal points out that prescribing drug nevirapine daily to breastfed infants for six weeks could protect them.
It is estimated that about 33 million people are affected with HIV globally and about 25 million had lost their life since the pandemic started in 1980s. A proper vaccine or drug is still to be found out to treat HIV.
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