What is the average lifespan with someone that has HIV since birth?!
Question: What is the average lifespan with someone that has HIV since birth!?
Answers:
8-9 years
Out of all those children truly infected at birth, 70% are alive at 6 years and 50% at 9 years old:
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The course of HIV and the life expectancy of a child with HIV can vary greatly!. There are two major groups of children with HIV!. One group consists of rapid progressors, who develop symptoms early in life, develop serious complications and AIDS early and often die before the age of five!. The other group consists of long term survivors, who generally develop symptoms much later (some not until their early teens) and live longer!. Generally, children with perinatal infection do not survive beyond their early 20's!. The median survival age is 8 to 9 years:
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Out of all those children truly infected at birth, 70% are alive at 6 years and 50% at 9 years old:
http://www!.aidsmap!.com/en/docs/1E836807-!.!.!.
The course of HIV and the life expectancy of a child with HIV can vary greatly!. There are two major groups of children with HIV!. One group consists of rapid progressors, who develop symptoms early in life, develop serious complications and AIDS early and often die before the age of five!. The other group consists of long term survivors, who generally develop symptoms much later (some not until their early teens) and live longer!. Generally, children with perinatal infection do not survive beyond their early 20's!. The median survival age is 8 to 9 years:
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First, that you make intelligent choices about when to start medications and which drugs to choose!. Unless, you are within the first six months of exposure to the virus, I usually recommend delaying the start of antiviral therapy as long as possible (providing your CD4 count is over 300 cells/mm3)!.
Second, it is very important that you are responsible for taking care of your health!. That means eating a healthy, natural foods diet, taking the right kinds of antioxidant vitamins, exercising regularly, and not abusing drugs!. That includes alcohol and cigarette smoking!. Cigarette smoking will shorten your lifespan if you are HIV(+), just as it does if someone is HIV(-)!. It makes cancer and heart disease more likely as well as puts a stress on your immune system!. These conditions are also made more likely by the presence of HIV infection so you essentially double the likelihood that you will have one or more of these problems!. I hope this gives you a clear message and that you try to quit smoking as soon as possible!. You can live a normal, healthy lifespan being HIV(+), however you have to become much more informed and involved with taking care of your health!. Good luck!
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Second, it is very important that you are responsible for taking care of your health!. That means eating a healthy, natural foods diet, taking the right kinds of antioxidant vitamins, exercising regularly, and not abusing drugs!. That includes alcohol and cigarette smoking!. Cigarette smoking will shorten your lifespan if you are HIV(+), just as it does if someone is HIV(-)!. It makes cancer and heart disease more likely as well as puts a stress on your immune system!. These conditions are also made more likely by the presence of HIV infection so you essentially double the likelihood that you will have one or more of these problems!. I hope this gives you a clear message and that you try to quit smoking as soon as possible!. You can live a normal, healthy lifespan being HIV(+), however you have to become much more informed and involved with taking care of your health!. Good luck!
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