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Title: AIDS Patients Face Downside of Longer Life
Post by: Natasha on January 05, 2008, 02:18:22 PM
AIDS Patients Face Downside of Longer Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/health/06HIV.html
By JANE GROSS
01/06/2008

...yet at 59 he is alive, thanks to a cocktail of drugs that changed the course of an epidemic. But with longevity has come a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of AIDS as a manageable, chronic disease.