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Its decline after the advent of antiretroviral therapy did not extend to Black men in the South.

With a grant to follow their large study population through 2021, researchers hope to gain vital new insights about HIV infection.

Other factors linked to a reduced risk of death include a hep C cure, less advanced liver disease, not smoking and well treated HIV.

Total cancer diagnoses will likely decline while shifting away from those associated with AIDS and toward those connected to aging.