You can live long if you have hiv. Take your treatment
Carefully
Effective HIV treatment has brought about an incredible change. Many doctors now believe that, provided a person with HIV receives effective HIV treatment before their immune system has been severely damaged by the virus, and if they take their drugs as prescribed, they can live a normal life span.

That's not to deny that people with HIV still become ill. Indeed, a few hundred people with HIV die each year in the UK, many as a direct consequence of their HIV infection. But these deaths often involve people who are diagnosed with HIV late in the disease process, when their immune system is already severely damaged.

For a long time the doctors treatment guidelines recommended that patients should start HIV treatment once their CD4 count fell below 200, an indicator that HIV has damaged the immune system to such an extent that it becomes vulnerable to serious illness. Since 2008, the worlds guidelines have recommended people start treatment sooner, when their CD4 cell count is around 350, and in some circumstances even sooner. 

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