Cocktails of HIV drugs help patients live an average of 13 years longer - if they are lucky enough to get them, researchers reported.
A person who started taking the drugs at age 20 could, on average, expect to live another 43 years, the researchers report in the Lancet medical journal on Thursday.
They looked at several studies of patients living in the US, Canada and several European countries who received drug combinations known as highly active antiretroviral therapy or HAART. Robert Hogg of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, Canada and colleagues looked at 43,000 patients in 14 different studies.
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