th1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Timothy J. Haggerty) (05/13/91)
Is anyone aware of long term survivor statistics, or studies that look at the cofactors that may (or may not) influnence the histories of long term survivors? My intuition tells me that the US profile of AIDS may actually be improving for some patients at a rate that is higher then believed (and thus mimicing the British respose) but that the "second wave" of AIDS (in the drug-using population) may have the effect of depressing the survival rates of those people in the original cohort of patients (primarily gay men and transfusion cases). Anyway, I'd be interested if anyone knows any epidemiological work being done in this area.