Article: Care for HIV infection in the US: can we do better?(Perspectives)

Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has been tremendously successful in reducing mortality from HIV infection in the developed world and is beginning to reach needy persons in the developing world. Mortality in the US has decreased by about 75% from its peak in the mid-1990s. Survival of patients infected with HIV in the developed world is now estimated in some studies in decades rather than individual years. Potent drugs in existing classes and drugs from new classes are coming down the development pipeline. Given this success, it is tempting to believe that we have maximized care for HIV-infected individuals in the US and that we simply need to keep that stream ...

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