A person who has hiv how long can live?

ya cant answer that...some live long normal lives...everyone is different...

couple of days

if HIV turns into aids that's when you will be expected to die prematurely.

Hi Sara.

A person who is HIV positive can live for many years if they have the right medical treatment, and if they have good healthy food. Each person is different, and many people have lived with HIV without developing AIDS.

This link may be interesting to you: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/brochur...

EDIT: I'm sorry, "Macdaddy" has given incorrect information: people CANNOT "have AIDS without HIV" as the virus, HIV, CAUSES AIDS.

First you should know HIV and AIDS aren't the same. HIV attacks the immune system. Basically it kills t-cells in the blood stream, rendering a person unable to recove from an illness. It depends, are they on meds? Is this person sick? No one can really tell, Ussually its the flu or some other illness that kills them, not the aids (Aquired immune deficiancy syndrome), although the aids really did help, good luck
p.s. People can have aids without hiv, they die for the exact same reason as people with hiv do

Answer:

In the early days of the epidemic, the answer would have been simple -- and hard to take. After becoming infected with HIV, people could expect to get AIDS within about 10 years, and then live only 1 to 2 years more.

But things have changed since then. We have good HIV treatments, and people who take them as prescribed tend to do very well. We have better blood tests to help decide who should start treatment, to monitor how well treatment is working against the virus, and to help choose a new treatment if an old one stops working. With proper medical care, people with HIV can expect to live much longer now than they could 15 years ago.

We still can't tell exactly how long because the medications and tests have been around only for 10 years or less, and people are living longer than that. But, more and more, people with HIV are dying of other things, such as injuries and heart attacks, not AIDS.

This doesn't mean you don't have to protect yourself or your partner from HIV infection. As the years go by, HIV treatments may lose their effectiveness or have long-term side effects. Or the infection itself may have long-term effects that we don't know about yet. Also, some people can't take HIV medications because of side effects or other health problems, and untreated HIV infection remains a deadly disease.

I totally agree with Bharat Mangesh's answer whic repeat here

In the early days of the epidemic, the answer would have been simple -- and hard to take. After becoming infected with HIV, people could expect to get AIDS within about 10 years, and then live only 1 to 2 years more.

But things have changed since then. We have good HIV treatments, and people who take them as prescribed tend to do very well. We have better blood tests to help decide who should start treatment, to monitor how well treatment is working against the virus, and to help choose a new treatment if an old one stops working. With proper medical care, people with HIV can expect to live much longer now than they could 15 years ago.

We still can't tell exactly how long because the medications and tests have been around only for 10 years or less, and people are living longer than that. But, more and more, people with HIV are dying of other things, such as injuries and heart attacks, not AIDS.

This doesn't mean you don't have to protect yourself or your partner from HIV infection. As the years go by, HIV treatments may lose their effectiveness or have long-term side effects. Or the infection itself may have long-term effects that we don't know about yet. Also, some people can't take HIV medications because of side effects or other health problems, and untreated HIV infection remains a deadly disease.
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I'm in my 15th year of being HIV+. I have taken medication on a few occasions (twice to bring healthy children into the world--both are safe from the virus). Right now I just eat right and take no meds. I'm looking forward to another 15 years!! So it really just depends on the persons will to live, I think, as to how long they live. Unfortunately some do not know they have been exposed and go years without being tested or treated and that gives them a smaller chance (in my opinion) to live longer.

There are so many things that affect this question. As I have seen in some of the answers back in the 80's when someone was tested it was a death sentence. I lost friends with in 15-24 months after diagnosis.

In 1995 the "cocktail" came out, it is a combination of medication that have taken what was a death sentence and turned it into a chronic manageable disease. I have friends that have been infected 25 years and still are just HIV+.

A couple of weeks ago I read a medical journal article that people that test HIV+ now, and test early will have at least a 30 year life expectancy. But the key to this is test early and test often if you feel you are at risk, or test at least once a year if you have more than one partner.

Other things that needs to be taken into consideration, is if they are on meds and if so are they taking them as they are instructed, now there are some people who are not advanced and don't need medications yet, I have one friend who is HIV+ for 23 years and have never taken a pill. But for most people I tell them take their meds, lots of rest, eat well, exercise, plenty of rest and as stress free a life as they can have.