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Closing the gap: increases in life expectancy among treated HIV-positive individuals in the United States and Canada.

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A 20-year-old HIV-positive adult on ART in the U.S. or Canada is expected to live into their early 70 s, a life expectancy approaching that of the general population.
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Background: Combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly increased survival among HIV-positive adults in the United States (U.S.) and Canada, but gains in life expectancy for this region have not been well characterized. We aim to estimate temporal changes in life expectancy among HIV-positive adults on ART from 2000–2007 in the U.S. and Canada.

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Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2015.

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Life expectancy of HIV‐positive people after starting combination antiretroviral therapy: a meta‐analysis

TL;DR: A meta‐analysis was performed to assess life expectancy of HIV‐positive people after starting cART, and to quantify differences between low/middle‐ and high‐income countries.
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Prevention of HIV-1 infection with early antiretroviral therapy

TL;DR: The exciting evidence generated by this paper – that antiretroviral treatment of HIV-1 infection definitively reduces the risk of onward transmission of the virus by 96% – was rightly dubbed Science magazine's ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ in 2011.
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Social determinants of health inequalities

TL;DR: A Commission on Social Determinants of Health is launching, which will review the evidence, raise societal debate, and recommend policies with the goal of improving health of the world's most vulnerable people.
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