Does AIDS Cause Mortality?

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Maternal Mortality, AIDS Leading Causes of Death for Women Worldwide; Investment in Gender Equality Needed, UNFPA Report Says

More than 500,000 women died from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth in 2000, but 99% of those maternal deaths were preventable, according to the U.N. Population Fund 's "State of World Population 2005 " report released on Wednesday, ... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Examination of Inequalities in HIV/AIDS Mortality in the United States From a Fundamental Cause Perspective

In the current study, the researchers assessed changes in socioeconomic status (SES) and black and white inequalities in HIV/AIDS mortality prior to and after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Taking a fundamental... Read more »

Trends in Mortality and Causes of Death Among Women With HIV in the United States: A 10-Year Study

Toward the goal of assessing trends in mortality and causes of death for HIV-positive women, the authors studied deaths occurring during a 10-year period among participants in the Women's Interagency HIV Study, a representative U.S. cohort. Deaths... Read more »

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Aids mortality in HAART era

Is mortality in +ve HAART treated people (strict adherence, start above cd4 350 etc) likely to converge on the 'normal' or average of people without infection?What are the trends in causes of death between the +ve and -ve in the advent of...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

In your scenario, the likelihood of an AIDS associated death in someone starting treatment above 350 CD4 cells is very, very low. Deaths from other causes (cancer, heart disease, etc) are now becoming the leading cause of death in HIV infected... Read more »

mortality in age of haart.

What are the leading causes of death for those who seroconverted after the advent of HAART? Does this group of people still die from HIV?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Well thats actually a fairly complicated question. HIV is not curable, at least not yet. So consequently yes, it can still be a fatal illness. Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) unfortunately does not work for everyone for a variety of... Read more »

HIV and mortality

This is a somewhat long and tough question. I seem to get very vague answers from my docs. I keep getting told that with medication compliance and regular blood work I should live to a normal expectancy BUT what I read seems to contradict this....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,I too tend to believe the claims of a "normal life expectancy" are overly optimistic. I'm one of the most optimistic guys on the planet and I certainly hope to die of old age. However, I'm also a scientist and a realist. HIV... Read more »

AIDS mortality decrease

Do you have any figures on AIDS mortality rates since the onset of HAART? Ive seen figures for 1995 -1997, but what about 1999-2000?...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

There has been well publicized figures on the decrease in mortality in the US among persons with HIV infection and AIDS from the CDC's HOPS (HIV outpatient study) cohort. The most recent presenation of this data was at this years Conference on... Read more »

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SIDA: ENFERMEDAD MORTAL O HASTA ENVEJECER??

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Esto es importante y no kiero falsedades... es ,mortal o se puede vivir 70 aos con ella?? y con la medicacion claro???
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Ferritin as a predictor of HIV mortality?

Posted by ScotCharles, 1 Reply

As I have posted my ferritin levels have increased from 424 to 724 in five months, a nearly exponential rate of increase. I test positive as a carrier of the hemochromotosis gene, but I do not have the gene on both chromosomes, so I shouldn't get... Read more »

Way too scared now to test....AIDS leading cause

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

of death in San Francisco. The article is posted right on the main page of The Body. Read more »

AIDS- 3rd leading cause of death

Posted by Anonymous

AIDS to Be 3rd Leading Cause of Death

The Associated Press

By MARIA CHENG

November 27, 2006

You can't put all your eggs in the abstinence basket

Within the next 25 years, AIDS is set to join heart disease and stroke as the top three causes of death... Read more »

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