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Average life years lost from HIV/AIDS: 35.7 years (SEER); 37.9 for HIV in North Carolina1. ...see also deaths and HIV/AIDS
Deaths from HIV/AIDS: 15,245 deaths in 2000 (NIAID); 14,802 deaths reported in USA 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001)
Estimated mortality rate for HIV/AIDS from prevalence and deaths statistics:
Estimated mortality rate for HIV/AIDS from incidence and deaths statistics:
Complications of HIV/AIDS may include:
Complications of HIV/AIDS from the Diseases Database include:
See also complications of HIV/AIDS.
Researchers have observed two general patterns of illness in
HIV-infected children. About 20 percent of children develop serious
disease in the first year of life; most of these children die by age 4
years.
The remaining 80 percent of infected children have a slower
rate of disease progression, many not developing the most serious symptoms
of AIDS until school entry or even adolescence. A recent report from a
large European registry of HIV-infected children indicated that half of
the children with perinatally acquired HIV disease were alive at age 9.
Another study, of 42 perinatally HIV-infected children who survived beyond
9 years of age, found about one-quarter of the children to be asymptomatic
with relatively intact immune systems. (Source: excerpt from Backgrounder -- HIV Infection in Infants and Children: NIAID)
Women whose HIV infections
are detected early and receive appropriate treatment survive as long
as infected men. There are several studies that have shown
HIV-infected women to have shorter survival times than men. Women
may be less likely than men to be diagnosed early, which may account
for shorter survival times.
In an analysis of several studies
involving more than 4,500 people with HIV infection, women were
one-third more likely than men to die within the study period. The
investigators could not definitively identify the reasons for excess
mortality among women in this study, but they speculated that poorer
access to or use of health care resources among HIV-infected women
as compared to men, domestic violence, homelessness, and lack of
social supports for women may have been important factors. (Source: excerpt from HIV Infection in Women, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
Older people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS do not live as long as younger people who have the virus. It is important to get tested early. The earlier you begin medical treatment, the better your chances for living longer. (Source: excerpt from HIV, AIDS, and Older People -- Age Page -- Health Information: NIA)
The following are statistics from various sources about deaths related to HIV/AIDS:
The 'prognosis' of HIV/AIDS usually refers to the likely outcome of HIV/AIDS. The prognosis of HIV/AIDS may include the duration of HIV/AIDS, chances of complications of HIV/AIDS, probable outcomes, prospects for recovery, recovery period for HIV/AIDS, survival rates, death rates, and other outcome possibilities in the overall prognosis of HIV/AIDS. Naturally, such forecast issues are by their nature unpredictable.
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