(Photo: Courtesy)With antiretroviral drugs and patients' persistence in taking them, HIV has become a manageable chronic condition. Graduate student Bora Youn led the research that tracked 43,598 HIV patients in 14 states over the decade. ALSO READ: Mother’s brave fight against HIV infectionsPersistence refers to the time from starting treatment to discontinuing it. The study also compared those rates to persistence with medications for other chronic conditions among thousands of patients without HIV-infection. Between 2001 and 2003, half of the patients stopped taking HIV medications 24 months after starting them, but between 2004 and 2006 the period of persistence reached 35.4 months.

Source: Standard Digital May 28, 2017 17:03 UTC