The UN’s health agency has said anyone testing positive for HIV should not wait until they start feeling ill to seek treatmentThe World Health Organization (WHO) has revised its HIV guidelines to recommend that anyone who tests positive for the virus that causes AIDS should be treated immediately.The UN health agency had previously said doctors should wait to treat some people with HIV until their immune systems suggested they were getting sick. But in a statement on Wednesday,WHO said the unique recommendations – which are already in place in many developed nations such as the US – are based on recent trials that beget found early treatment “keeps people with HIV alive, healthier and reduces the risk of transmitting the virus”.
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Source: theguardian.com