Treating mental problems also helps HIV treatment. Therapy along with medical treatments works best.
Mental illnesses have had a great impact on the AIDS epidemic, and new research shows that providing psychiatric treatment to HIV-infected patients who have a psychiatric comorbidity will produce better treatment outcomes, one researcher says.
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