Saturday, 23 February 2013

Increased Availability of HIV Treatment in Rural South Africa Has Led to Increased Life Expectancy Among Adults

A new study conducted by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health found that the scaling up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the rural community of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa has dramatically increased the life expectancy among the adult population with a gain of 11.3 years during the period between 2004 and 2011. While previous studies have shown that ART significantly improves survival in clinical cohorts of HIV patients receiving ART, this is the ...

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