HIV dementia persists, but now it's a chronic disease.
Highly active antiretroviral therapy has not eliminated HIV dementia, but it has changed the problem from one that strikes with severity and quickly leads to death to a process of slow, chronic cognitive decline, according to new research. 'What's been observed is there appears to be less of the old AIDS dementia, at least among patients with access to the new antiretroviral therapies,' says Dawn McGuire, MD, medical director of the Western NeuroAIDS Program at the HIV Institute for Treatment and Research in San Francisco.
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