The administering of the drug cocktail presently used to combat HIV/AIDS shows proof that ‘middle-aged sufferers have symptoms of HIV-negative 80-year-olds.’ Medical findings show that accelerated aging is tied to HIV/AIDS medicines. ‘The aging population of Americans with HIV/AIDS is in a much different spot than those infected before the drug cocktail was introduced in the mid-1990s.’

However, ‘new research reveals disturbing trends related to aging. The cause is likely either the disease or the medications, and the result is symptoms—from frailty to memory loss—more common in octogenarians than in the middle-aged population in question. More than half of HIV-positive Americans have some sort of cognitive impairment.’

There have been many opposing opinion and movements related to the supposed global scourge called HIV/AIDS, with some saying that HIV is a myth concocted to be able to sell medication that actually withers away the bodies of suspected patients, as they are really cancer therapy drugs. There even is an entire scientific speculation that AIDS is a sham.

The recent findings by researchers that point to the precariousness of AIDS medication indicate that ‘physiological symptoms like osteoporosis may be related to the toxic drug cocktail that keeps the virus in check, while HIV’s ability to hide out in the brain could be responsible for cognitive impairment and even dementia. One study shows medicated HIV patients at 56 have immune systems comparable to 88-year-olds.’

The present status brings about a new and another kind of AIDS crisis. ‘A striking number of HIV patients are living longer but getting older faster—showing early signs of dementia and bone weakness usually seen in the elderly.’

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