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AIDS Patients Face Downside of Living Longer - New York Times
by ubernoir at 8:05 am EST, Jan 6, 2008

John Holloway received a diagnosis of AIDS nearly two decades ago, when the disease was a speedy death sentence and treatment a distant dream.
Yet at 59 he is alive, thanks to a cocktail of drugs that changed the course of an epidemic. But with longevity has come a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of AIDS as a manageable, chronic disease.

this just seems so unimaginably cruel