{"id":4306,"date":"2006-11-11T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:19:15","slug":"aids_and_life_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"AIDS and life expectancy – the latest study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. Here’s really interesting study, reported on by AP. The average American with AIDS has about a 24 year life expectancy. A big advance in the past two decades<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.aol.com\/topnews\/articles\/_a\/average-american-with-hiv-lives-24-years\/n20061110163909990011<\/a><\/p>\n

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An American diagnosed with the AIDS virus can expect to live for about 24 years on average, and the cost of health care over those two-plus decades is more than $600,000, new research indicates. <\/p>\n

Both life expectancy and the cost of care have risen from earlier estimates, mainly because of expensive and effective drug therapies, said Bruce Schackman, the study’s lead author. <\/p>\n

The research found that the average annual monthly cost of care is about $25,200 – nearly 40 percent higher than a commonly cited estimate from the late 1990s. <\/p>\n

The new research also updates other studies from the 1990s, when life expectancy for HIV-infected people was closer to 10 years. <\/p>\n

The study could influence how much state and federal governments appropriate for HIV and AIDS care and prevention in the future, some HIV policy experts said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. Here’s really interesting study, reported on by AP. The average American with AIDS has about a 24 year life expectancy. A big advance in the past two decades http:\/\/news.aol.com\/topnews\/articles\/_a\/average-american-with-hiv-lives-24-years\/n20061110163909990011 An American diagnosed with the AIDS virus can expect to live for about 24 years on average, and the cost of health care over those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}