Drug cocktail boosts HIV survival by 13 years: Study.

Agence France-Presse PARIS, July 24: Anti-HIV drugs have slashed death rates among people with the AIDS virus by nearly 40 per cent since combination therapy was introduced in 1996, boosting their life expectancy by some 13 years, a study says. It is the biggest-ever assessment into the effectiveness of highly active antiretroviraltherapy ~ the triple cocktail of drugs that suppress, but do not eradicate, the human immunodeficiencyvirus (HIV). Publishing tomorrow in the British weekly medical journal The Lancet, researchers report on 14 ongoing studies into more than 33,000 HIV-infected people living in Europe, Canada and the United States. These people started …