Antiretroviral treatment has increased the life expectancy of people living with HIV in British Columbia, but a new study shows that it is much lower for women than men.
The research document on the Center of Excellence of British Columbia, published in Public Health Lancet on Reading Committee, underlines an immediate need to deal with factors such as unemployment and unstable housing that negatively affects the health of Women victims of HIV.
Expansion on the scale of the province of antiretroviral treatment combined with the Stop HIV / AIDS has increased life expectancy for all, but the epidemiologist Katherine Kooij, the main author of the newspaper, says that he “worries” »That the improvement is not as strong in women.
She says that the difference is suspected of being due to environmental or social structural factors such as obstacles to access to health care, unemployment, poverty, unstable housing, stigmatization and discrimination.
The research document shows that the life expectancy of 20 -year -old men living with HIV between 2012 and 2020 went to 68 years while for women, it has only increased by 61 years.
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Previously, life expectancy among people with HIV from 1996 to 2001 was only 44 for men and 42 for women.
Researchers also found that women with HIV presented a risk of death of 33% higher by non -transmitted diseases such as renal, hepatic and pulmonary diseases than men living.
The vast majority of those in British Columbia are treated for HIV are men, according to the study which followed 11,738 men and 2,534 women.
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