Improved short-term survival of AIDS patients initially diagnosed with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, 1984 through 1987

Article Abstract:

National trends in the short-term survival of patients with AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) were evaluated using records from the Centers for Disease Control, state and local health departments, and other sources. Nationwide, 36,847 persons over age 13 were diagnosed with AIDS between January 1984 and September 1987. Over this time, more patients for whom Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) was one of the first symptoms were still alive one year after the initial AIDS diagnosis. The number surviving one full year after diagnosis increased from 42.7 percent between 1984 and 1985, to 54.5 percent in 1986 and 1987. This improved survival occurred among homosexual men, male and female intravenous drug users, and in all age, race, and geographic groupings. Patients who did not have PCP as an initial symptom of AIDS did not, as a group, show increased survival rates over the same time periods. Factors that may explain this reduced short-term mortality include improved diagnostic procedures and treatments for AIDS, especially the drug zidovudine (AZT), which was introduced in 1986. These results may be affected by underreporting of deaths due to the inability of local or state health departments to trace patients who move out of the area. This phenomenon would not, however, explain the improved survival observed only in persons with PCP as an initial manifestation. The author believes the data show a real improvement in the short-term survival of these patients. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

HIV (Viruses), HIV, Pneumocystis carinii

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AIDS in women in the United States: recent trends

Article Abstract:

Young women should be taught safe sex and other ways to prevent HIV infection while they are teenagers, preferably before they begin having sex. Data on AIDS in US women from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that women made up 19% of all adult AIDS cases in 1995. Black women and women living in the Northeast and in urban areas had the highest rates. The biggest increases in the 1990's were seen in the South and in heterosexual women. The greatest increase in the rate of AIDS development occurred in women who were 21 to 25, indicating that they became infected while teenagers.

Women, Diseases

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Survival After AIDS Diagnosis in Adolescents and Adults During the Treatment Era, United States, 1984-1997

Article Abstract:

The average survival of AIDS patients increased from 11 months in 1984 to 46 months in 1995, according to a study of 394,705 AIDS patients between 1984 and 1997. This means more and more AIDS patients will be living with a chronic disease.

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