Table 1.
Median age (and inter-quartile range) at death for men with diagnosed HIV under various treatment scenarios. The unlimited drug availability scenario is a theoretical scenario to simulate life expectancy if individuals never face the prospect of having no new treatments to act as replacements for exhausted treatments that are currently available.
| Population | Number of ART classes available | Median age of mortality (IQR)
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|---|---|---|---|
| Initiate treatment/observation at age 20 years | Initiate treatment/observation at age 40 years | ||
| HIV infected | None | 27.7 (23.8–32.0) | 47.5 (43.3–52.1) |
| 6 (current scenario) | 67.4 (53.2–77.7) | 78.4 (69.7–85.4) | |
| Unlimited | 82.8 (69.6–89.9) | 84.0 (73.6–90.4) | |
| General population (non-HIV) | NA | 82.2 (74.0–87.8) | 82.4 (74.7–87.9) |