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How long can HIV person live without medication?
Once a person progresses to AIDS, they have a high viral load and can transmit HIV to others very easily. In the absence of treatment, people with AIDS typically survive for about three years.
Can you have HIV for 10 years and not know it?
You may not have any symptoms at all for up to 10 years. At that point, HIV begins to make it hard for your body to fight off infections, so you can get infections that normally wouldn’t affect you. When your immune system reaches a certain point of weakness, that’s when HIV becomes AIDs.
What is the life span of someone with HIV?
The study showed that additional life expectancy for a 20-year-old person with HIV was only 19 years back in 1996, meaning a total lifespan of only 39 years on average.
What is the life expectancy of AIDS without treatment?
Without using HIV treatment, life expectancy is related to how quickly your CD4 count drops and how low it gets. Without treatment, some people see their CD4 count drop to under 200 within a few years of infection, while others people can go for 5-10 years or longer before they need treatment.
What is the life expectancy of a HIV positive child?
The long-term future of children with HIV is uncertain. The current average life expectancy is about 10 years from the time of diagnosis, but new treatments mean things are improving all the time. With good care, HIV-infected children today have a good chance of living as long as anyone else who has the disease, and that can be decades.
How long HIV to AIDS?
Generally speaking, the time it takes to go from HIV infection to AIDS is around 5-10 years if no medical intervention is made. Differences in time can be due to any number of factors, including: The genetic strain of HIV a person has been infected with (some of which may be more or less virulent than others)