People who contracted HIV through sexual contact during the
1980s or early 1990s faced an 8 to 23 percent risk, depending on age, of dying
within five years of infection.
Now, that same risk is close to nil, a new study finds.
The sharply lower mortality risk stems directly from a
combination of anti-HIV drugs known by the slightly misleading abbreviation
HAART, for highly active antiretroviral therapy.
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