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They also are suffering debilitating health problems, chronic illnesses brought on by a lifetime of living with AIDS and the toxic effects of its treatment.

Can anyone explain what they mean by "toxic effects of its treatment"?




Antiretroviral treatment is hard on the body even now, and the earlier versions were cruder and had more adverse side-effects.[1] It's similar to chemo in that sense.

[1]: https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/html/1/adult-and-adolesc...


I see, thanks for the resource. Tough disease. I somewhat assumed that if you were getting treatment you could more or less forget about the disease but that doesn't seem to be the case. After reading some serious articles that have been published in the last three years it seems that a cure could found in the next 15 to 25 years... optimistic of course but let's hope that's the case.




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