I have to believe that living with HIV today is better today than when the epidemic started There are more newer drugs available and programs are more numerous.
Sadly, life expectancy in the U.S. is in a decline. This is an amazing statistic given the advances in medicine we have achieved and the abundance of resources in this nation. However, driving the recent downward trend in this indicator of national well-being is not an infectious disease or cancer, but drug overdoses and suicide -- especially among white men and people in rural areas. For people living with HIV infection, the same seems to hold. Data from the large NA-ACCORD cohort show that from 2000 to 2015, rates of suicide were almost always much higher among white men living with HIV than white men in the general population. Not surprisingly, HIV-positive white men who inject drugs had the highest suicide rates. In contrast, HIV-positive black men take their own lives at a similar rate as black men in the general population. Women in the cohort who were living with HIV were found to commit suicide at rates below those in the general population.
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