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Belief that HIV is always fatal is hopelessly out of date and needs to be disregarded. Antiretroviral drugs have improved the quality of life for those living with HIV, particularly for those who initiate treatment quickly and consistently.
HIV-positive people have a higher chance of dying prematurely if they engage in certain behaviors that reduce the efficacy of their therapy. In order to extend your life expectancy, you should avoid these practices. In this essay, I will discuss some of the behaviors that are discouraged by VerywellHealth.
1 Postponing medical care
It is a typical blunder when dealing with HIV-positive people. Treatment for HIV is most successful when initiated early in the course of infection, when the CD4 count is high. An improved prognosis is seen in persons with HIV who start treatment sooner rather than later.
Tobacco use
Healthline reports that smokers with HIV had a higher mortality rate than nonsmokers with the same diagnosis. By almost a dozen years, smoking decreases the life expectancy of an HIV patient.
Use of Injecting Drugs
HIV-positive people who inject drugs are at increased risk for toxic infections and live half as long as HIV-positive people who don’t take drugs. There is an increased prevalence of other blood-borne diseases that compromise immunity among this population as well.
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