San Francisco public health officials next week will announce aggressive new guidelines that call for people with HIV to begin taking antiviral medicines as soon as they learn they are infected. The controversial new policy departs from previous guidelines that called for HIV patients to take the medications only when signs showed their immune systems had begun to fail.
According to The New York Times, “Behind the policy switch is mounting evidence that patients who start early are more likely to live longer.."(keep reading)(via:the advocate)
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